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From Edge to Enterprise Cloud: Part 2 — Tool Orchestration with the Model Context Protocol

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In our first installment, From Edge to Enterprise-Cloud: Part 1: Building a Cost-Free Local Loop with Foundry Local, we established a completely offline, hardware-accelerated local loop using Microsoft Foundry Local. By embedding Small…

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From Edge to Enterprise-Cloud: Part 1 — Building a Cost-Free Local Loop with Foundry Local

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In the fast-evolving landscape of Generative AI, developers are facing a silent productivity killer: feedback loop latency and unbudgeted cloud API costs. When building AI-driven agents, every tweak to a prompt, every revision of a system…

Exploring Microsoft Foundry Local

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With the Public Preview of Microsoft Foundry Local, Microsoft is taking a serious step toward bringing production-grade AI inference onto local hardware. After spending several days working with the preview, it became clear that Foundry…