Microsoft Spends $2.5 Billion on Customer AI Deployments

Microsoft will spend $2.5 billion on a new unit aimed at helping its customers implement artificial intelligence (AI). The Microsoft Frontier Company, announced Thursday (July 2), will also embed 6,000 industry and engineering experts with the tech giant’s customers in what it calls a step above what is known as “forward deployed engineering” (FDE). “The pace of AI adoption is moving incredibly fast.