Anthropic's valuation has surged to $350 billion after Microsoft and Nvidia invested a combined $15 billion in the AI company behind the Claude chatbot on 18 November 2025. As part of the deal, Anthropic has committed to purchasing $30 billion worth of Azure cloud computing capacity, whilst Nvidia
In October 2025, Microsoft researchers announced that artificial intelligence can design new toxins that bypass current biosecurity screening systems. Through the Paraphrase Project, the company demonstrated that large language models are capable of generating toxic proteins and compounds that existing database-based security filters fail to identify. In a Microsoft Research
The CEO of Microsoft’s artificial intelligence division, Mustafa Suleyman, has strongly opposed research into AI consciousness, which he considers premature and particularly dangerous. He has expressed this position in several international interviews, emphasising that there is currently no evidence that today’s AI models possess consciousness or subjective experience.
Microsoft will soon use Anthropic's AI technology for certain Office 365 applications, with an announcement planned in the coming weeks. This strategic shift indicates the software giant is diversifying its artificial intelligence portfolio after primarily relying on OpenAI technology for Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint applications. Microsoft has
In July 2025, Microsoft initiated negotiations with OpenAI for a new agreement that would ensure the company's continued access to OpenAI's technology even after the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI), modifying the original 2019 contract which stipulated that Microsoft would lose its access rights if
Microsoft has revealed details of an artificial intelligence system that performs significantly better than human doctors at complex health diagnoses, creating what they call a "path to medical superintelligence". The company's AI unit, led by British tech pioneer Mustafa Suleyman, has developed a system that imitates
The Hungarian Competition Authority Has Achieved a Historic Commitment from Microsoft to Develop Its AI Systems Using 10 Billion Hungarian Words, Making This Data Freely Available to Other Developers The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) initiated proceedings against Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited in July 2023, investigating whether the company adequately informed
The American tech giant Microsoft announced in February 2025 the completion of its EU Data Boundary for Microsoft Cloud sovereignty project, enabling European customers’ data to remain within the EU and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) regions. The multi-year, three-phase engineering project covers Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and
On 26 March 2025, Microsoft announced the introduction of two new AI agents with deep reasoning capabilities for Microsoft 365 Copilot users. Named "Researcher" and "Analyst," these agents leverage OpenAI technology and will become available to users in April through a new "Frontier" programme.
Microsoft is developing in-house artificial intelligence models, including the 500 billion parameter MAI-1, to reduce its dependence on OpenAI. The company is working on AI reasoning systems that could potentially be made available to external developers as an API in the future. This strategic move is a key part of
In February 2025, Microsoft introduced two new members of the Phi-4 model family, with the Phi-4-multimodal-instruct being particularly noteworthy. Despite having just 5.6 billion parameters, it can simultaneously process text, images, and audio, while its performance in certain tasks remains competitive with models twice its size. The Phi-4-multimodal-instruct was
Microsoft unveiled the Majorana 1 quantum chip on February 19, 2025, which is the world's first quantum processor with a topological core architecture and is expected to enable the construction of quantum computers capable of solving industrial-scale problems in the near future. The revolutionary innovation of the chip
