Microsoft has silently upgraded the gpt-chat-latest endpoint in Azure AI Foundry to GPT-5.6 Sol, delivering reduced hedging, improved factual grounding, and native multimodality without requiring code…
Fractal Analytics is hiring a Lead Architect for Azure and Agentic AI Solutions in Mumbai, an on-site role posted 2 days ago with an unpublished salary. The architect will define the target architectu…
Frontier AI model lifespans have collapsed to about a year, with Claude Opus 4.1 retired exactly 12 months after its August 5, 2025 release and Gemini 1.5 Pro 002 retired exactly 12 months after its S…
WPP, the creative transformation company, is hiring a Full Stack Developer/AI Engineer in Mexico City to design and develop AI-powered agentic solutions, including Human2System, System2System, and Age…
Microsoft retired Phi-3-mini-instruct (128k), its phi-3-mini-128k-instruct model, from Azure AI Foundry hosted deployments, with the retirement schedule now listing only Phi-4 and no longer publishing…
Microsoft retired GPT-5.2 Chat on Azure AI Foundry, with both versions retired as of 2026-06-29 and replaced by gpt-chat-latest, correcting a previously scheduled retirement date of 2026-08-10. The mo…
Microsoft retired Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct on Azure AI Foundry on 2026-06-13, part of a serverless retirement wave that also affected Meta-Llama-3.1-405B and 8B-Instruct. The model, released 2024-0…
Microsoft has retired Phi-3-medium-instruct (4k), its 4k-context language model, from Azure AI Foundry hosted deployments as part of the Phi-3/3.5 MaaS retirement in 2025, and the model was delisted f…
Microsoft has retired Phi-3-small-instruct (128k), its azure-hosted deployment on Azure AI Foundry, as part of the Phi-3/3.5 MaaS retirement in 2025, with the model delisted from models.dev's Azure ca…
Microsoft retired the GPT-5.1 Chat model on Azure AI Foundry on 2026-06-29, directing users to the gpt-chat-latest model. The model was delisted from models.dev's Azure catalog in August 2026. The ret…
Microsoft retired all versioned gpt-5-chat deployments on Azure AI Foundry as of 2026-06-29, consolidating them into the rolling alias gpt-chat-latest, and the model was delisted from models.dev's Azu…
Microsoft retired Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct on Azure AI Foundry, delisting the model from its azure-hosted deployment catalog as of August 2026. The model, released on April 18, 2024, had an 8k contex…
Microsoft has retired Phi-3-small-instruct (8k), its 8k-context small language model, from Azure AI Foundry hosted deployments, with the retirement schedule now listing only Phi-4 and no longer publis…
Microsoft has retired Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct on Azure AI Foundry, with the retirement schedule now listing only Phi-4 and no longer publishing an exact date. The model was delisted from models.dev's Azu…
Microsoft retired Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct on Azure AI Foundry, removing the serverless deployment and delisting the model from models.dev's Azure catalog in August 2026. The model, released on 2024-0…
Microsoft has retired the Phi-3-mini-instruct (4k) model from Azure AI Foundry, with the retirement schedule now listing only Phi-4 and no longer publishing an exact date. The model was delisted from …
Microsoft has retired Phi-3-medium-instruct (128k) on Azure AI Foundry, with the retirement schedule now listing only Phi-4 and no longer publishing an exact date. The model was also delisted from mod…
A developer at Azure AI Foundry identified a bug in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) bridge that silently drops date filters from agent tool calls, causing the assistant to return inaccurate search re…
The Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol reached 150 organizations in production use as of April 2026, with native support from AWS Bedrock AgentCore, Azure AI Foundry, and Google Vertex AI. The Agentic AI Foun…
Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Global Standard deployment type is a routing behavior with quota consequences, not a performance choice, and teams often misunderstand its implications. The company documents …