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Microsoft Adds New GPT Models to Azure Content Understanding
Microsoft added new GPT models to Azure, but internal tests show similar accuracy across them with large cost differences, so smart model selection can save money.

Microsoft has added GPT-5.6, GPT-6, and GPT-6.1 to Azure Content Understanding. The new models are available across document, text, speech, and video workflows.
Internal testing shows only a small accuracy gap between the highest-performing models. However, the completion-token costs differ significantly. This cost spread reinforces the value of task-specific model routing and the use of targeted examples to control spend without a proportional loss in quality.