Microsoft Announces Azure AI With Copilot GA And Meta Llama 4 Integration
Redmond Magazine, Tuesday, April 8th, 2025
Microsoft has announced the general availability (GA) of Copilot in Azure and the addition of Meta's new Llama 4 models to Azure AI Foundry and Azure Databricks.
Copilot in Azure has officially reached GA, with Microsoft confirming that its current capabilities will continue to be available at no additional cost. Initially launched in public preview in May 2024, Microsoft said Copilot has been widely adopted across enterprises of all sizes.
"Since we launched Copilot in Azure in an ungated public preview in May 2024, Copilot in Azure has served millions of prompts for hundreds of thousands of users," said Microsoft's Ruhiyyih Mahalati in a blog post. "Within Microsoft alone, we estimate that Copilot saves more than 30,000 developer hours every month."