Published: 2026-07-23 Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-highlights-thursday-23rd-july-2026-117-edition-taswar-bhatti-s6rkf Hope everyone is enjoying some summer break and here is the #117 edition of 5 Highlights Thursday. I hope this newsletter will help you in your Azure journey and keep you informed. Feel free to forward this along to anyone who you think may enjoy or better ask them to subscribe. […]
Tag: Azure AI Foundry
Most prompt engineering content out there assumes you’re writing Python. Jupyter notebooks, pip install, Conda environments — none of it maps to how most of us actually ship software. If you’re a .NET developer who wants to build real AI-powered features — not toy demos — into your applications, I wrote a free ebook for […]
Published: 2026-07-16 Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-highlights-thursday-16th-july-2026-116-edition-taswar-bhatti-nj6df Hope everyone is enjoying some summer break and here is the #116 edition of 5 Highlights Thursday. I hope this newsletter will help you in your Azure journey and keep you informed. Feel free to forward this along to anyone who you think may enjoy or better ask them to subscribe. […]
Demo code located at https://github.com/taswar/KimiFoundryDemo There are a lot of AI model announcements these days. But every now and then one lands that feels immediately practical for real engineering work. Kimi K2.7 Code from Moonshot AI showing up in Microsoft Foundry feels like one of those releases. Microsoft and Moonshot AI have made Kimi K2.7 […]
Sample code located at https://github.com/taswar/CohereCommandAPlusDemo Enterprise AI teams have a familiar problem. You need multilingual support because your users are in Germany, Japan, and Brazil. You need document understanding because half your data lives in scanned PDFs and screenshots. You need tool calling because your agents have to actually do things, not just talk about […]
Published: 2026-06-11 Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-highlights-thursday-11th-june-2026-113-edition-taswar-bhatti-bxojf Here is the #113 edition of 5 Highlights Thursday. I hope this newsletter will help you in your Azure journey and keep you informed. Feel free to forward this along to anyone who you think may enjoy or better ask them to subscribe. 1. Microsoft Build 2026 Day 2 LIVE | […]
Published: 2026-06-04 Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-highlights-thursday-4th-june-2026-112-edition-taswar-bhatti-uac1f Here is the #112 edition of 5 Highlights Thursday. I hope this newsletter will help you in your Azure journey and keep you informed. Feel free to forward this along to anyone who you think may enjoy or better ask them to subscribe. 1. Microsoft Build 2026 Day 1 LIVE | […]
There are a lot of AI model announcements these days, but every now and then one lands that feels immediately practical for real engineering work. Claude Opus 4.8 showing up in Microsoft Foundry feels like one of those releases. Microsoft is positioning Claude Opus 4.8 around coding, agentic workflows, and deeper reasoning for enterprise scenarios, […]
Published: 2026-05-20 Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-highlights-thursday-21st-may-2026-111-edition-taswar-bhatti-kwige Here is the #111 edition of 5 Highlights Thursday. I hope this newsletter will help you in your Azure journey and keep you informed. Feel free to forward this along to anyone who you think may enjoy or better ask them to subscribe. 1. STATE-Bench – Memory-agnostic Benchmark Join Jorge Arteiro, […]
OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 is now generally available (GA) in Microsoft Foundry, and this is one of those releases that matters less for “chat” and more for getting actual work done—end-to-end. The big theme: messy, multi-step requests → completed tasks, with stronger reliability in planning, tool use, UI navigation, and recovery when something breaks mid-flow. If you’re […]
