Definition
Plain language
Microsoft's rental computing service, where companies run their software and AI models on Microsoft's machines.
As stated in the literature
Microsoft's cloud platform; in this context the Azure AI model-routing service that selects among hosted models per request.
Why it matters: Most organizations reach AI models through a cloud platform like this rather than running them in-house, so the platform's defaults quietly shape which model actually answers.
For example, a hospital that does not want to buy its own servers can run a chatbot on Azure and let Microsoft's routing service pick which hosted model answers each patient question.
Heard on the show
“Azure's own responsible-AI content filter kept blocking the researchers' experimental prompts as jailbreak attempts.”Episode 149 — When Cornering a Chatbot Makes It Lie: J.P. Morgan's Case for 'Playing Dead'