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Using Arctic on Microsoft Foundry

Implementation guide · Arctic · Snowflake

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Microsoft Foundry exposes Arctic through model ID arctic. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at Microsoft Foundry and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the Microsoft Foundry SDK or REST API to call arctic — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $2.00/1M input, $2.00/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

See Microsoft Foundry documentation for integration details.

Pricing on Microsoft Foundry

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$2.00
Output tokens$2.00

Capabilities

Structured Outputs

About Arctic

Snowflake Arctic is an advanced large language model tailored for enterprise applications by Snowflake AI Research. It features an innovative Dense-MoE Hybrid transformer architecture, combining a 10 billion parameter dense transformer with a 128 x 3.66 billion parameter MoE MLP, totaling 480 billion parameters but utilizing only 17 billion actively. This structure optimizes efficiency, particularly for tasks like SQL generation, coding, and instruction following. The model's training spanned a diverse dataset of 3.5 trillion tokens, focusing on enterprise needs. Despite its capabilities, Arctic's deployment presents challenges due to its size, and it remains vulnerable to inaccuracies with unclear inputs.

Model Specs

Released2024-04-24
Parameters480B
Context4k
ArchitectureMixture of Experts

Provider

Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry

Microsoft

Redmond, Washington, United States