Almirall’s R&D teams can now find the right experiment, protocol, or historical result in seconds instead of hours or days — a leap made possible by combining Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models, Azure AI Search, and Azure Databricks to index and query some 400,000 documents spanning more than 50...
Microsoft has added xAI’s Grok 4 Fast models to Azure AI Foundry, a move confirmed by Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry blog and publicly acknowledged in a terse exchange between Elon Musk and Satya Nadella that underscored the strategic optics of hosting third‑party frontier models on hyperscaler...
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...
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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.
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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.
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xAI’s new Grok 4 Fast lands as a direct bet on cost‑efficient reasoning: a unified, multimodal model with a staggering 2,000,000‑token context window, split SKUs for reasoning and non‑reasoning use, native web and X search, multihop browsing, and a pricing structure designed to make long‑context...