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Microsoft put an ex-Facebook exec in charge of a new AI unit. Internal memos reveal how it's going.
Internal memos Jay Parikh has sent to employees since taking on a new AI unit reveal its early ambitions and accomplishments.
Microsoft expands AI roster with Anthropic and xAI integrations, looking beyond OpenAI alliance
Microsoft is continuing to expand its fleet of AI partners, hedging its bets beyond its high-profile partnership with OpenAI ...
Microsoft Adds Musk’s Grok Models to Azure AI Foundry, Risks OpenAI’s Disapproval
The announcement was made at Microsoft’s Build developer conference on Monday, and was notable given Microsoft’s partnership ...
Microsoft is racing to build an AI ‘agent factory’
When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella ran into Meta’s former engineering chief, Jay Parikh, at a conference last summer, he had ...
Microsoft debuts Windows AI Foundry for local model development on AI PCs
In addition, Windows AI Foundry will also support the large number of developers who are building their own LLMs. It said ...
Microsoft to offer rival AI models from own data center; launches AI coding agent
Microsoft said on Monday it would offer new AI models made by Elon Musk's xAI, Meta Platforms and European startups Mistral ...
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Why Microsoft is unifying data and AI within Fabric
Fabric is being transformed as a decision infrastructure layer to support faster decision making and easier development of ...
Microsoft unveils Windows AI Foundry, retools PC operating system for agents
Microsoft introduces Windows AI Foundry to help developers build and run AI models directly on PCs, part of a broader push to ...
Microsoft expands Fabric and Azure data portfolio to simplify AI development
The updates span Microsoft Fabric, Azure Cosmos DB, SQL Server, Power BI, PostgreSQL and integrations with Databricks Inc.’s ...