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.
Background...
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...