Microsoft AI News & Updates
Microsoft Reports 20-30% of Its Code Now AI-Generated
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed that between 20% and 30% of code in the company's repositories is now written by AI, with varying success rates across programming languages. The disclosure came during a conversation...
Microsoft Develops Efficient 1-Bit AI Model Capable of Running on Standard CPUs
Microsoft researchers have created BitNet b1.58 2B4T, the largest 1-bit AI model to date with 2 billion parameters trained on 4 trillion tokens. This highly efficient model can run on standard CPUs including Apple's M2,...
Microsoft Scales Back Global Data Center Expansion Plans
Microsoft has reportedly halted or delayed data center development projects across multiple countries including the UK, Australia, and several US states. Despite previously announcing plans to allocate over $80 billion t...
OpenAI Secures Historic $40 Billion Funding Round at $300 Billion Valuation
OpenAI has closed one of the largest private funding rounds in history, raising $40 billion at a $300 billion post-money valuation, led by SoftBank with participation from Microsoft and other previous investors. Accordin...
OpenAI Secures $11.9 Billion Computing Deal with CoreWeave
OpenAI has signed a five-year, $11.9 billion contract with cloud provider CoreWeave to secure AI computing resources, while also acquiring a $350 million equity stake in the company. This significant investment comes as...
OpenAI Secures $12 Billion GPU Cloud Deal with CoreWeave
OpenAI has signed a five-year, $11.9 billion agreement with GPU cloud provider CoreWeave, including receiving $350 million worth of equity in the company. The deal reduces OpenAI's dependence on Microsoft's cloud service...
Microsoft Develops Competing AI Models As Relationship With OpenAI Grows Tense
Microsoft is actively developing its own AI models, including a family called MAI and reasoning models comparable to OpenAI's o1 and o3-mini. The tech giant is also exploring alternative providers like xAI, Meta, Anthrop...
Microsoft Reduces Data Center Footprint Amid Industry Expansion
Microsoft has canceled leases totaling approximately two data centers' worth of capacity with multiple providers. This contraction stands in contrast to significant industry expansion, including the $500 billion Stargate...
Microsoft Establishes Advanced Planning Unit to Study AI's Societal Impact
Microsoft is creating a new Advanced Planning Unit (APU) within its Microsoft AI division to study the societal, health, and work implications of artificial intelligence. The unit will operate from the office of Microsof...
Microsoft Deploys DeepSeek's R1 Model Despite OpenAI IP Concerns
Microsoft has announced the availability of DeepSeek's R1 reasoning model on its Azure AI Foundry service, despite concerns that DeepSeek may have violated OpenAI's terms of service and potentially misused Microsoft's se...