Azure Cognitive Services
Argon Systems reports that Microsoft's Foundry Model Router has been substantially expanded, growing from a small initial footprint to 28 global standard regions and 21 data zone regions, which helps teams meet regulatory and data-residency requirements without changing their application integration. Updates are delive The router's supported model pool has been refreshed: Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 and the GPT-5.6 family have been added for complex reasoning and long-form generation, while gpt-5-chat, gpt-5.2-chat, gpt-5.3-chat, and Deepseek-V3.1 have been pruned as they reached end-of-life in Foundry. The post also frames routing as