Microsoft makes Foundry Local generally available (GA)

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Foundry Local generally available (GA) — a cross-platform on-device inference stack for Windows, Linux and macOS, with automatic GPU, NPU and CPU acceleration and native Metal on Apple Silicon

Why it matters

Made local inference, free of cloud lock-in and per-token billing, an official product line

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Officialdevblogs.microsoft.comhttps://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/foundry-local-ga/

Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week

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