At AI Tour Frankfurt, we announced new milestones for Microsoft Sovereign Cloud — expanding innovation, scale, and collaboration across Europe.
💡 Continuous innovation in Microsoft Sovereign Cloud
⚙️ New AI and scalability across public and private environments
🤝 Providing greater access to in-country expertise through partner digital sovereignty specialization
Here is how we are prioritizing compute over the next couple of months in light of the increased demand from GPT-5:
1. We will first make sure that current paying ChatGPT users get more total usage than they did before GPT-5.
2. We will then prioritize API demand up to the currently allocated capacity and commitments we've made to customers. (For a rough sense, we can support about an additional ~30% new API growth from where we are today with this capacity.)
3. We will then increase the quality of the free tier of ChatGPT.
4. We will then prioritize new API demand.
We are ~doubling our compute fleet over the next 5 months (!) so this situation should get better.
We're thrilled to announce that OpenAI's open-source models gpt-oss-120B and gpt-oss-20B are now available on Azure AI Foundry and Windows AI Foundry.
Learn more: https://t.co/lCeZqZLk5p
A couple reflections on the quantum computing breakthrough we just announced...
Most of us grew up learning there are three main types of matter that matter: solid, liquid, and gas. Today, that changed.
After a nearly 20 year pursuit, we’ve created an entirely new state of matter, unlocked by a new class of materials, topoconductors, that enable a fundamental leap in computing.
It powers Majorana 1, the first quantum processing unit built on a topological core.
We believe this breakthrough will allow us to create a truly meaningful quantum computer not in decades, as some have predicted, but in years.
The qubits created with topoconductors are faster, more reliable, and smaller.
They are 1/100th of a millimeter, meaning we now have a clear path to a million-qubit processor.
Imagine a chip that can fit in the palm of your hand yet is capable of solving problems that even all the computers on Earth today combined could not!
Sometimes researchers have to work on things for decades to make progress possible.
It takes patience and persistence to have big impact in the world.
And I am glad we get the opportunity to do just that at Microsoft.
This is our focus: When productivity rises, economies grow faster, benefiting every sector and every corner of the globe.
It’s not about hyping tech; it’s about building technology that truly serves the world.
NEWS: Microsoft just announced that it plans to spend $80 billion this year building out data centers.
More than half of this spending through June 2025 will be in the U.S https://t.co/f57ef6Loxb
Get the skills you need for the AI era. ✏️ Whatever your role, @Microsoft is committed to connecting you with individualized learning opportunities to fuel your growth (don’t miss AI-generated training plans from @MicrosoftLearn!). #MSIgnite
✅ Microsoft was named a Leader and positioned furthest to the right for Completeness of Vision in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services (SCPS). Read the report: https://t.co/2tkQbIMjz6
Microsoft Azure is the 1st cloud running @nvidia's Blackwell system with GB200-powered AI servers. We're optimizing at every layer to power the world's most advanced AI models, leveraging Infiniband networking and innovative closed loop liquid cooling. Learn more at MS Ignite.
Microsoft will host a Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit on Sept. 10 to meet with CrowdStrike and other endpoint security partners and discuss improving resiliency and protection for mutual customers’ critical infrastructure. https://t.co/8S7NSFwgsL
Dear @Tesla_Asia, on behalf of owners of cars imported into Malaysia before the 2023 official launch, can we request Cyberjaya accept them for repairs?
At the owners' expense, of course.
This will be in line with practice in Norway as illustrated in the screenshot below.
It’s great to be back in Malaysia, where we’re announcing our biggest investment in the country to date to help support its AI transformation and create new skilling opportunities for people across the country. https://t.co/or0lYCEF3w
Microsoft launched the best course on Generative AI!
The free 18 lesson course is available on Github and will teach you everything you need to know to start building Generative AI applications.
Just 2 weeks until the Windows Server Engineering Summit!! Lots of exciting details about Windows Server 2025 coming. See you there: https://t.co/JruBJn0Vt8
Today is a great day for gamers everywhere. Together with Activision Blizzard, we will deliver on our vision to help people connect and play great games wherever, whenever, and however they want.