Get Started with Orca 2 13B on Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry offers access to Orca 2 13B. Microsoft Foundry is a unified enterprise AI platform that significantly expands beyond Azure OpenAI. It functions as a multi-provider hosting and deployment platform for LLMs, supporting models from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, xAI, Meta, Mistral, NVIDIA, and others. Foundry integrates agent services, evaluation, observability, and governance into a single Azure control plane. Key capabilities include a multi-provider model catalog, Model Router for intelligent prompt routing, Foundry Agent Service for building and deploying AI agents with built-in tracing and monitoring, and enterprise-grade governance with RBAC, compliance, and regional deployments. For broader model catalog including Claude, DeepSeek, Grok, Llama, Mistral, and NVIDIA Nemotron, Foundry is the recommended platform over Azure OpenAI.
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.81 |
| Output tokens | $0.94 |
Capabilities
About Orca 2 13B
Orca 2 13B, developed by Microsoft, is a large language model designed primarily for research purposes. It is a fine-tuned version of the LLaMA-2 base model, focusing on enhanced reasoning capabilities in smaller language models. This is achieved through training on a synthetic dataset specifically created to improve reasoning skills. Orca 2 13B excels in tasks such as reading comprehension, math problem-solving, and text summarization. However, it is not optimized for chat applications and requires fine-tuning for specific tasks. The model demonstrates strong performance in zero-shot settings but shares common LLM limitations, such as potential biases and a lack of contextual understanding. It is primarily suitable for research and not recommended for deployment without further evaluation. 124 3 7 8.