Content by Steve Sweetman (5)

Steve Sweetman explains how AT&T built and scaled its telecom-focused OTel 2.0 models using Microsoft Foundry Managed Compute, combining open models from Hugging Face with AMD and NVIDIA GPU capacity to process around one trillion tokens while optimizing for cost, performance, and deployment speed.

Steve Sweetman announces general availability of Anthropic Claude in Microsoft Foundry on Azure, focusing on what changes for teams moving from agent experiments to production: Azure-native identity and governance, data-zone choices, zero data retention, consolidated billing via CCU, and platform features like model routing and continuous evaluation.

Steve Sweetman announces the availability of Claude Opus 4.6 in Microsoft Foundry on Azure, delivering advanced agentic AI for coding, security, and enterprise automation.

Steve Sweetman announces the general availability of GPT-5 in Azure AI Foundry, detailing its rollout to developers via GitHub Copilot and VS Code, enhanced reasoning, orchestration features, and robust security and governance layers for enterprise AI adoption.

In this article, Steve Sweetman explores maximizing returns with Azure OpenAI by reviewing flexible pricing, deployment types, cost-saving features, and integration across the Azure AI ecosystem.