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Grok 4.6 is a significant update focused on long-running agent workflows and visual tasks, offering a massive 500k context window and configurable reasoning levels. Its availability on Microsoft Foundry provides enterprises with a standardized platform to evaluate this frontier model against competitors while deploying it under strict governance controls. This release directly impacts the development of coding agents and enterprise automation systems by providing a scalable infrastructure for complex interactive workloads.
Grok 4.6 on Microsoft Foundry

Grok 4.6 is now available via Microsoft Foundry.
Today, we’re excited to announce that Grok 4.6 is now available on Microsoft Foundry.
Grok 4.6 is our latest flagship model, built for long-running agents and ambitious interactive and visual work. It offers a 500k context window and configurable reasoning efforts (low, medium, high, xhigh).
For more on the model, read the Grok 4.6 announcement.
Build with Grok 4.6 on Microsoft Foundry
Foundry gives organizations a single place to evaluate Grok 4.6 against other frontier models, run workload-specific tests, deploy managed endpoints, and operate with enterprise security and governance controls.
If you are building coding agents, engineering copilots, research assistants, or enterprise automation, you can get started in the Foundry model catalog. See Microsoft’s announcement, Grok 4.6 comes to Microsoft Foundry Models, and our Microsoft Foundry integration guide for deployment details.
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