Microsoft Foundry Crosses 11,000+ Models, Puts Claude Opus 4.8 Inside Excel Agent Mode
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Microsoft's Foundry model catalog now lists 11,000+ models with unified Azure billing and authentication, and has integrated Claude Opus 4.8 into Excel's Agent Mode. It marks deeper Anthropic-Microsoft integration even as Microsoft pushes its own MAI models to reduce OpenAI dependence. For builders, it normalizes multi-model enterprise deployment under a single Azure control plane.