Microsoft integrates AI throughout its products, including Microsoft Azure AI, which provides cloud-based AI tools and services for developers and enterprises. The company’s AI is also embedded in its Office 365 suite for tasks like smart recommendations and automation. Microsoft is advancing AI research with partnerships and investments in OpenAI, enhancing generative AI capabilities.
Before I dive in, I want to offer some broader perspective on the AI platform shift. Similar to the cloud, this transition involves both knowledge and capital intensive investments.
Quotes from microsoft Executives About Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI
Our share gains accelerated this year, driven by AI. We expanded our datacenter footprint, announcing investments across four continents.
- Satya Nadella
With Azure AI, we are building out the app server for the AI wave, providing access to the most diverse selection of models to meet customers’ unique cost, latency, and design considerations.
- Satya Nadella
All-up, we now have over 60,000 Azure AI customers, up nearly 60% year-over-year.
- Satya Nadella
[Azure OpenAI Service] is being used by leading companies in every industry...
- Satya Nadella
[GitHub Copilot] is by far the most widely adopted AI-powered developer tool... more than [77 thousand organizations have adopted it], up [180%] year-over-year.