Microsoft is pushing its newly generally available Fireworks AI integration at the startup segment, publishing a deployment blueprint on August 4, 2026 that pairs a reference architecture for running open models on Microsoft Foundry with a billing perk: members of the Microsoft for Startups program can apply their Azure credits to Fireworks model deployments, and the program advertises up to $150,000 in credits. The Fireworks integration itself has reached general availability, putting…