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Title: Microsoft puts Grok 4 behind a gate: What Azure and Windows admins need to know right now
TL;DR
Microsoft is not broadly launching xAI’s Grok 4 on Azure AI Foundry. Instead, the model is entering a limited, invite-only private preview while Microsoft continues safety and red-team...