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azure for r&d
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The Azure for R&D tag covers discussions about using Microsoft Azure as a platform for research and development, particularly in industrial and scientific contexts. A featured thread highlights Microsoft Discovery, an Azure-based agentic AI platform used by BHP to screen over 500,000 copper-leaching reagents, demonstrating how Azure can accelerate R&D by compressing years of work into weeks. The tag focuses on Azure's role in moving AI beyond office productivity into physical-world industrial science, emphasizing its potential to transform R&D workflows through computational triage and agentic AI. Topics include Azure-hosted AI models, industrial research applications, and the integration of AI into scientific discovery processes.
Microsoft made Microsoft Discovery generally available on June 2, 2026, and BHP says it has already used the Azure-based agentic AI platform to screen more than 500,000 possible copper-leaching reagents for a mining problem central to the energy transition. That is the plain fact. The more...