AI

Energy at Microsoft Ignite was electric. Over 20,000 attendees gathered in San Francisco, with 200,000 digital participants joining us to explore the future of cloud and AI.

Today, we are sharing progress on our infrastructure expansions across the United States that are supporting the tremendous growth in customer demand for cloud and AI services.

We are extending Azure public regions with options that adapt to our customers’ evolving business requirements without forcing trade-offs.

The cloud landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace, driven by the exponential growth of AI workloads.

Announcing Anthropic’s newest model, Claude Opus 4.5, in Microsoft Foundry. Opus 4.5 is now available in public preview in Microsoft Foundry, GitHub Copilot paid plans, and Microsoft Copilot Studio.

Today, I’m thrilled to announce the next generation of Microsoft’s databases: SQL Server 2025, Azure Document DB, Azure Horizon DB, and Fabric Databases, each redesigned to meet the demands of AI.

Agents are reshaping software. No longer mere assistants, they are becoming dynamic collaborators layered within our everyday tools.

Microsoft Foundry already offers the widest selection of models of any cloud and with today’s partnership announcement with Anthropic, we’re proud that Azure is now the only cloud providing access to both Claude and GPT frontier models to customers on one platform.

Today, we are unveiling the next Fairwater site of Azure AI datacenters in Atlanta, Georgia.

When we launched the Secure Future Initiative, our mission was clear: accelerate innovation, strengthen resilience, and lead the industry toward a safer digital future.

The path from prototype to production for AI/ML workloads is rarely straightforward. As data pipelines expand and model complexity grows, teams can find themselves spending more time orchestrating distributed compute than building the intelligence that powers their products.

Empowering organizations to shape the future of cloud with resilient, always-on solutions.