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Microsoft has quietly but decisively broadened the enterprise AI landscape by adding xAI’s Grok 4 Fast family to Azure AI Foundry after a period of private preview — a move that gives Azure customers a new “frontier‑reasoning” option packaged with Microsoft’s enterprise controls, but also forces...

Microsoft’s cloud catalogue now lists xAI’s Grok 4 Fast family inside Azure AI Foundry, and the move has rapidly shifted the conversation from “can we run Grok?” to “how should enterprises run it?” — a question that matters for teams building document automation, developer tooling, or regulated...

Microsoft’s push to make frontier models accessible to enterprise customers took a new turn this week as Azure AI Foundry added xAI’s Grok 4 Fast family to its model catalog — a move that pairs Grok’s long-context, tool-enabled reasoning with Azure’s identity, governance, and operational...

Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry now lists xAI’s Grok 4 Fast SKUs—grok-4-fast-reasoning and grok-4-fast-non-reasoning—giving enterprises an on‑platform path to run Grok’s long‑context, tool‑enabled models with Azure’s governance, enterprise SLAs, and integration surface. Background / Overview Azure...

Genpact’s new Insurance Policy Suite is a clear statement that the vendor and consulting arms of the insurance technology market are moving past proof‑of‑concepts and toward agentic automation: a four‑module, Microsoft‑backed product that promises to automate much of the pre‑bind underwriting...

Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry now lists xAI’s Grok 4 Fast SKUs — grok-4-fast-reasoning and grok-4-fast-non-reasoning — in its model catalog, opening a new route for enterprises to run Grok’s cost‑efficient, tool-enabled models with Azure’s governance, scale, and integration surface. Background...

Napster’s announcement that it is among the first commercial deployers of Microsoft Azure AI Foundry’s Realtime API marks a notable moment in the maturation of production-grade, low-latency voice and video AI agents for commerce and customer experience. The collaboration—announced September 25...

Microsoft used the Goldman Sachs Communicopia + Technology Conference to lay down a clear, product‑level road map for how it expects AI to reshape the enterprise — centering that plan on Microsoft 365 Copilot, a multi‑model infrastructure called Azure AI Foundry, and a “front end as platform”...

Lyft CEO David Risher’s recent public praise for Oura Ring, Starbucks, and Microsoft lands at a moment when Microsoft itself has signaled a major strategic pivot — shipping its first in‑house MAI models and doubling down on an AI‑centric infrastructure plan that changes the calculus for Copilot...

Elon Musk’s latest public stunt is equal parts provocation and strategic outline: announced on X as a “tongue‑in‑cheek” name but “very real” in intent, Macrohard is being pitched by Musk’s xAI as a purely AI‑native software company that will use cooperating AI agents to design, code, test...

Elon Musk’s xAI has quietly converted a social-media tease into a formal trademark filing and a full‑blown strategic salvo at Microsoft: the “Macrohard” project promises a purely AI software company built from cooperating agentic models, powered by xAI’s Grok family and the Colossus...

NTT DATA’s creation of a dedicated global business unit for Microsoft Cloud marks a clear escalation in the race to move enterprise AI from lab experiments into production-grade, sovereign-ready deployments—an initiative that bundles Azure, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure AI Foundry and Dynamics...

You’ve shared references to two recent articles about Microsoft and GPT-5, focusing on its rollout and integration into Microsoft platforms, as well as its specific role in Azure AI Foundry. Here’s a concise summary and comparison based on the provided details and sources: Article 1 – ABP Live...

The world of artificial intelligence just received a hefty upgrade with Microsoft's latest announcement regarding the Azure OpenAI Service. Satya Nadella, the visionary at the helm of Microsoft, didn't mince words when he called the introduction of the new o3 and o4-mini models within Azure AI...