Google Cloud's move to file a complaint with the European Commission over Microsoft's alleged anti-competitive business practices with Azure highlights how the cloud battle is moving to courtrooms and regulators.
Microsoft and Quantinuum said they have created 12 highly reliable logical qubits by combining Azure Quantum's qubit virtualization system to Quantinuum's H2 trapped-ion quantum computer. Microsoft also said it would work with Atom Computing to add a new quantum system to Azure Quantum.
Palantir Technologies said it will deploy its AI Platform (AIP) on Microsoft Azure for U.S. government agencies and use Azure OpenAI service.
Microsoft announced a bevy of additions to Azure including AMD Instinct MI300X instances, Cobalt 100 instances in preview and the latest OpenAI model, GPT-4o, in Azure OpenAI Service.
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Mistral AI said it will first bring Mistral Large to Azure, which is most closely associated with OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Microsoft said Azure delivered revenue growth of 30% in its fiscal second quarter and CEO Satya Nadella noted that moved from "talking about AI to applying AI at scale."
Hyperscalers are getting chippy as they compete for generative AI workloads.
At Microsoft's Ignite 2023 conference the company fleshed out its generative AI offerings and strategy and, in some places, put some serious distance between it and the competition.
Microsoft fleshed out its generative AI infrastructure plans with the launch of its custom processors for model training and inference along with Copilot Studio for new use cases.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud appear to be hitting similar themes as they continue to battle for workloads, artificial intelligence supremacy and enduring customer relationships.
