Microsoft launched Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat which brings its free chat experience for Microsoft 365 commercial customers to a broader base. The catch is that there are pay-as-you-go agent capabilities.
Microsoft launched the Quantum Ready Initiative to help businesses prepare for quantum computing as well as align it with business strategy and returns.
Microsoft said it will spend $80 billion on AI data centers to train models and deploy applications in what amounts to a concentrated bet on generative and agentic AI. But there are multiple takeaways to note in Microsoft's missive about its AI plans.
Microsoft rolled out more than 80 new products and features to round out its Copilot and artificial intelligence stack as it moved to position itself as an early enterprise AI leader and a platform that can provide model choices.
Microsoft reported better-than-expected first quarter earnings as commercial cloud revenue was up 22% and Azure grew 33% from a year ago.
Microsoft is adding 10 autonomous agents in Dynamics 365 and moving the ability to create them into public preview in Copilot Studio. With the move, Microsoft is adding on to its Copilot stack with agentic AI agents that can complete tasks autonomously.
Microsoft said Copilot agents are generally available in a move that provides enterprises agentic AI to automate business processes while preserving that Copilot brand it's known for.
Palantir Technologies said it will deploy its AI Platform (AIP) on Microsoft Azure for U.S. government agencies and use Azure OpenAI service.
Microsoft delivered a better-than-expected fourth quarter and said Azure revenue growth was up 29%.
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.
Microsoft Fabric is getting tools and workloads to analyze real-time streaming data as well as integration with Snowflake and Databricks platforms.
Microsoft reported a strong third quarter with revenue growth was 17% with Microsoft Cloud revenue up 23% from a year ago. Azure and other cloud services revenue growth was 31% driven by AI services.
