Using Kimi K2.6 on Microsoft Foundry
Implementation guide · Kimi K2 · Moonshot AI
Quick Start
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- 2Use the Microsoft Foundry SDK or REST API to call
kimi-k2.6— see the documentation for request format.
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About Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry offers a comprehensive platform-as-a-service for enterprise AI operations. It provides multiple deployment options including Serverless APIs (pay-as-you-go), Global Standard (shared managed capacity), Provisioned Throughput Units (reserved capacity), batch processing, and bring-your-own model deployments. The platform features a unified control plane for models, agents, tools, and observability. Its Agent Service enables building and deploying AI agents with built-in tracing, monitoring, and governance. Evaluation and monitoring tools assess model performance, safety, and groundedness. Foundry supports seamless upgrades from Azure OpenAI with non-destructive migration, maintaining existing deployments while unlocking multi-provider model access and advanced platform capabilities.
Microsoft Foundry is a unified Azure platform-as-a-service offering for enterprise AI operations, model builders, and application development. It provides access to over 1,900 models from Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, xAI, Meta, DeepSeek, Hugging Face, and more. Foundry unifies agents, models, and tools under a single management grouping with built-in enterprise-readiness capabilities including tracing, monitoring, evaluations, and customizable enterprise setup configurations.
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About Kimi K2.6
Kimi K2.6 is Moonshot AI's latest agentic reasoning model, launched April 13 2026 as a code preview for Kimi Code subscribers. Built on a 1-trillion-parameter MoE architecture (32B active, 384 experts), it inherits K2.5's 256K context window and adds enhanced reliability for long-horizon agentic workflows — supporting 200–300 sequential tool calls without drift. Optimized for coding, multi-step agent planning, and vision-assisted tasks such as processing screenshots, PDFs, and spreadsheets.