Here is the Bonus #118 edition of 5 Highlights Thursday — a bit of a bonus edition this week with 7 highlights instead of 5. 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 […]
Tag: Microsoft Foundry
Every voice application I’ve ever built or reviewed has the same problem: latency. The model can sound as natural as you want, but if there’s a full second of dead air between the user finishing a sentence and the assistant responding, the whole thing feels broken. Users notice a pause before they notice voice quality. […]
Every time a new image model ships, my first question isn’t “how pretty are the demo images.” It’s “can I actually put this in a pipeline and get consistent, controllable output.” Most image models are great at one beautiful hero shot and terrible at the boring part — generating twelve consistent product variants, or fixing […]
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 […]
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, […]
If you’ve been building AI-powered apps lately, you’ve probably noticed that the conversation is shifting. It’s no longer just about “generate text.” It’s about reasoning, multi-step workflows, and agents that actually do things. That’s why I got excited when I saw Grok 4.3 land in Microsoft Foundry. This isn’t just another model drop — it’s […]
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 […]
