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By now, most people would agree that AI is in the process of fundamentally changing how we work and solve problems. But this technology is still too often thought of as an addition to the work we do, rather than a fundamental part of it. AI is not something that you can just plop on… The post From idea to deployment: The complete lifecycle of AI on display at Ignite 2025 appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog.

Anthropic to scale Claude on Azure Anthropic to adopt NVIDIA architecture NVIDIA and Microsoft to invest in Anthropic Today Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announced new strategic partnerships. Anthropic is scaling its rapidly-growing Claude AI model on Microsoft Azure, powered by NVIDIA, which will broaden access to Claude and provide Azure enterprise customers with expanded model choice and new capabilities. Anthropic… The post Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announce strategic partnerships appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog.

Today, we are unveiling the next Fairwater site of Azure AI datacenters in Atlanta, Georgia. This purpose-built datacenter is connected to our first Fairwater site in Wisconsin, prior generations of AI supercomputers and the broader Azure global datacenter footprint to create the world’s first planet-scale AI superfactory. By packing computing power more densely than ever… The post Infinite scale: The architecture behind the Azure AI superfactory appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog.

Across every industry, leaders are asking: How can AI be used to fundamentally transform our business? At the forefront are Frontier Firms — empowering human ambition and finding AI-first differentiation in everything to maximize their potential and impact on society. These firms are redefining what’s possible and setting the pace for the future. To better… The post Bridging the AI divide: How Frontier Firms are transforming business appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog.

AI is rapidly becoming the backbone of our world, promising unprecedented productivity and innovation. But as organizations deploy AI agents to unlock new opportunities and drive growth, they also face a new breed of cybersecurity threats. There are a lot of Star Trek fans here at Microsoft, including me. One of our engineering leaders gifted… The post Beware of double agents: How AI can fortify — or fracture — your cybersecurity appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog.

Over the past few years, we have driven remarkable progress accelerating AI innovation together with our customers and partners. We are achieving efficiency and productivity at scale to shape industries and markets around the world. It is time to demand more of AI to solve humanity’s biggest challenges by democratizing intelligence, obsolescing the mundane and… The post Becoming Frontier: How human ambition and AI-first differentiation are helping Microsoft customers go further with AI appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog.

Since 2019, Microsoft and OpenAI have shared a vision to advance artificial intelligence responsibly and make its benefits broadly accessible. What began as an investment in a research organization has grown into one of the most successful partnerships in our industry. As we enter the next phase of this partnership, we’ve signed a new definitive… The post The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog.

Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, shared the below communication with Microsoft employees this morning. We are in the midst of a tectonic AI platform shift, one that requires us to both manage and grow our at-scale commercial business today, while building the new frontier and executing flawlessly across both. History shows that general purpose technologies… The post Accelerating our commercial growth appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog.

A new breed of industry-leading company is taking shape — Frontier Firms. These organizations blend human ambition with AI-powered technology to reshape how innovation is scaled, work is orchestrated and value is created. They’re accelerating AI transformation to enrich employee experiences, reinvent customer engagement, reshape business processes and unlock creativity and innovation. To empower customers… The post Introducing Microsoft Marketplace — Thousands of solutions. Millions of customers. One Marketplace. appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog.

This week we have introduced a wave of purpose-built datacenters and infrastructure investments we are making around the world to support the global adoption of cutting-edge AI workloads and cloud services. Today in Wisconsin we introduced Fairwater, our newest US AI datacenter, the largest and most sophisticated AI factory we’ve built yet. In addition to… The post Inside the world’s most powerful AI datacenter appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog.