{"id":121763,"date":"2026-07-16T13:37:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.licensingschool.co.uk\/licensing-blog\/?p=121763"},"modified":"2026-07-16T13:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:37:32","slug":"microsoft-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.licensingschool.co.uk\/licensing-blog\/2026\/07\/16\/microsoft-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft announce the GA of Microsoft Discovery, a brand-new AI platform designed to build and govern agentic workflows for complex scientific and engineering research. It helps researchers coordinate specialised Agents, connect to data, and speed up breakthroughs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Licensing-wise, it uses Azure resources billed via the standard Pay-As-You-Go route, but there\u2019s also a new billing unit called &#8220;User Messages&#8221; to track billable Agent actions. 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The App runs locally as a desktop application consuming GitHub Copilot Credits, and thus users do need to be licensed for GitHub Copilot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find the announcement article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Sa7NiC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Sa7NiC<\/a>, useful billing information here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3TpR7nC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3TpR7nC<\/a>, and an interesting case study here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/4p7cnKJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/4p7cnKJ<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announce the GA of Microsoft Discovery, a brand-new AI platform designed to build and govern agentic workflows for complex scientific and engineering research. It helps researchers coordinate specialised Agents, connect to data, and speed up breakthroughs. 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