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The Economics of Agent Optimization: Four ways to lower the cost

Summary
Microsoft Foundry gives you four levers that act on every request, before a single line of agent logic changes. The post The Economics of Agent Optimization: Four ways to lower the cost appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
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