Microsoft launches Microsoft Frontier AI deployment company with $2.5 billion investment
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Russell Brandom
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Microsoft announced a new operating business called Microsoft Frontier, focused on delivering enterprise AI deployments using Microsoft's existing AI tools. The venture is backed by a $2.5 billion investment and will employ 6,000 industry and engineering experts. Microsoft's Commercial Business CEO Judson Althoff emphasized this goes beyond the typical Forward Deployed Engineer model. This follows similar moves by Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic to establish dedicated AI deployment groups.
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· 1 pulledThis goes beyond what has been labeled as Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
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