Grok 4.6 — SpaceXAI’s latest frontier model — just landed in public preview in Microsoft Foundry as an Azure Direct Model. The headline isn’t “another big model dropped.” It’s that Grok 4.6 is built specifically for long-horizon, agentic work: planning across many steps, calling tools reliably, recovering when something goes wrong, and handing you a […]
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This is the bonus content for the #121 edition of 5 Highlights Thursday — 7 highlights this week instead of 5. If you haven’t seen the main newsletter yet, check it out on LinkedIn. 1. Improving Performance in .NET Applications A deep dive into performance improvement techniques for .NET applications — covering profiling, benchmarking, and […]
This is the bonus content for the #120 edition of 5 Highlights Thursday — 7 highlights this week instead of 5. If you haven’t seen the main newsletter yet, check it out on LinkedIn. 1. Everything You Need to Know About the Latest in C# A comprehensive walkthrough of what’s new in C# for 2026 […]
Microsoft has a habit of quietly upgrading the model behind a stable endpoint name instead of forcing everyone to migrate to a new one. That’s exactly what just happened with GPT-chat-latest — it’s now built on GPT-5.6 Sol, and if you’re already pointing at GPT-chat-latest in Microsoft Foundry, you get the upgrade without touching a […]
Every time Microsoft ships a new model into Foundry, I ask myself the same boring-but-important question: does this change anything for the way I actually write code? Most of the time the answer is “cool demo, doesn’t affect my day job.” This time it’s different. MAI-Thinking-1 — Microsoft’s first reasoning model — just went into […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
