azure foundry

Microsoft and India’s Collective Artists Network (CAN) have announced a strategic partnership that places Galleri5 — CAN’s in‑house technology studio — on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry as the backbone for a production pipeline aimed at scaling AI‑driven filmmaking, episodic storytelling...

OpenAI’s Sora 2 has arrived in Azure AI Foundry public preview, bringing studio-grade text-to-video generation to a unified, enterprise-ready platform and promising to shorten the gap between imagination and finished visual content for developers, marketers, and creative teams. Background Azure...

Microsoft has quietly but decisively pushed the next chapter of agentic AI into the mainstream: the Microsoft Agent Framework — an open-source SDK and runtime that is now available in public preview inside Azure AI Foundry — and a parallel consumer-facing move that hands eligible college...

UiPath’s agentic automation platform has taken a concrete step toward native cross‑cloud AI orchestration by integrating Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry capabilities — a move that wires Microsoft’s model catalog, Model Context Protocol (MCP) tooling, and Copilot experiences into UiPath’s Maestro...

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”...

Microsoft’s message to founders is simple and forward‑looking: GPT‑5 is now part of Azure’s production stack, and Azure AI Foundry packages the model family, routing, safety controls and deployment plumbing startups need to move from experiment to revenue‑grade product quickly. The announcement...

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...

Microsoft’s quiet pivot from partner-dependent innovator to full-spectrum AI builder took a conspicuous turn this week with the public debut of the company’s first in‑house foundation models and voice engines under the MAI umbrella — most notably MAI‑1‑preview and a highly optimized speech model...

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...

Chemist Warehouse has quietly added a digital colleague to its HR team — an AI assistant named AIHRA that drafts responses to hundreds of routine HR queries each week, reshaping how the retail pharmacy giant manages volume, preserves specialist time, and rethinks talent retention across a...

Dreamspace’s launch reshapes a familiar promise: make building powerful applications as simple as describing them aloud — but this time, the platform fuses generative AI, verifiable blockchain data, and a low-cost Layer‑2 rollup to let creators ship onchain apps without writing a line of code...

A new on‑chain app builder called Dreamspace is rolling out on Base with heavy Microsoft AI integration—promising to turn plain‑English ideas into deployable decentralized apps by combining Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI for generation, Space and Time’s ZK‑provable SQL for verifiable data...