Perplexity expands cloud strategy with Azure alongside AWS
Perplexity signed a $750 million, three-year Azure Foundry deal to access frontier models while retaining AWS as its primary cloud partner and pursuing multicloud.
Microsoft Foundry Agent Service offers a choice of more AI models
Microsoft's Foundry Agent Service now supports many LLMs from Anthropic, DeepSeek, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI, enabling flexible model selection and advanced deployment features.