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Microsoft

ACTIVE
Microsoft Corporation
Big TechCloud providerAI LabPlatform companyChip makerHolding / corporate group
MSFTMicrosoft Corp.Micro-Soft (1975-1976)

American multinational technology corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, building software, the Azure cloud, AI platforms (Copilot, Azure AI Foundry), and Surface devices; one of the leading enterprise generative-AI providers.

Founded1975United States
HQRedmondUnited States
Total fundingPublic company (NASDAQ: MSFT) – no VC funding rounds.
Valuation~3 bln USDMarket cap (NASDAQ) · 2026
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01 · About

Microsoft

Founded 1975 · Redmond, United States

Founders

  • Bill Gates

    Co-founder

    American entrepreneur who co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975; founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

  • Paul Allen

    Co-founder

    American entrepreneur and philanthropist (1953–2018), co-founder of Microsoft; founded Vulcan Inc. and the Allen Institute.

02 · What they do

Domain of activity

9 areas · 13 technologies · 13 industries
What they do9Areas
  • AI platforms
  • Cloud AI
  • AI infrastructure
  • Language models
  • Multimodal models
  • Agent systems
  • Content generation
  • AI cybersecurity
  • Data analytics
How they do it13Technologies
  • Agentic AI
  • Foundation Models
  • Generative AI
  • LLM
  • Multimodal AI
  • NLP
  • RAG
  • Tool Use
  • MLOps
  • AI accelerators
  • Speech AI
  • Computer vision
  • Fine-tuning
Who for13Industries
  • Aerospace
  • Automotive
  • Defense & security
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Finance & banking
  • Healthcare
  • Industrial manufacturing
  • Media & entertainment
  • Public sector
  • Research & science
  • Retail
  • Telecommunications
03 · Geography

Global presence

HQ Redmond · 5 offices · 6 regions
GlobalNorth AmericaUSAEuropeEuropean UnionAsia
04 · Metrics

Scale & funding

founded 1975
1975founded
~228 000 (FY2024)employees
Public company (NASDAQ: MSFT) – no VC funding rounds.total funding
maturedevelopment stage
Publiclisted
activestatus
05 · Portfolio

Products & solutions

1 ai systems · 1 ai platforms
06 · Relations

Organizational relations

9 strategic relations · 8 brands · 1 subsidiaries

Strategic relations

9
  • Investor in
    Long-running multi-billion strategic investment in OpenAI (since 2019), incl. exclusive commercial access and Azure hosting.
  • Compute partner
    Primary compute provider for OpenAI (Azure).
  • Acquisition
    Acquisition of GitHub (~$7.5B).
    2018 →
  • Acquisition
    Acquisition of LinkedIn (~$26.2B).
    2016 →
  • Acquisition
    Acquisition of Activision Blizzard (~$68.7B).
    2023 →
  • Acquisition
    Acqui-hire of Inflection AI team (Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI).
    2024 →
  • Acquisition
    Acquisition of Nuance Communications (~$19.7B).
    2021 →
  • Partnership
    Strategic partnership with NVIDIA (H100/H200/Blackwell in Azure, AI Foundry integrations).
  • Partnership
    Partnership with AMD (Instinct MI300X in Azure).
07 · Classification

Profile & metadata

4 classification · 8 external links

Classification

  • Statusactive
  • Development stagemature
  • Listed onYesNASDAQ:MSFT
  • Organization typeBig Tech+ Cloud provider, + AI Lab, + Platform company, + Chip maker, + Holding / corporate group

External links

08 · Related content

Articles

6 articles
MAI-DxO: 83% accuracy against 36% for generalist doctors
News1 November 2026

MAI-DxO: 83% accuracy against 36% for generalist doctors

Microsoft published MAI-DxO results in Science. The system, coordinating several AI agents, hit 83% on complex NEJM cases against 36% for generalist physicians.

Microsoft launches MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and Perception AI system
News28 July 2026

Microsoft launches MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and Perception AI system

Microsoft unveiled MAI-Cyber-1-Flash — its first in-house cybersecurity AI model — and Perception, a red/blue/green agent system that automates finding and fixing vulnerabilities. The model ships now, with a public preview on November 3, 2026.

Mosseri: an engineer's AI token budget may soon equal their salary
News16 July 2026

Mosseri: an engineer's AI token budget may soon equal their salary

Meta's Adam Mosseri predicts that within 1–2 years companies will need to cap per-engineer AI token usage — managing it like payroll or operating expenditure. Meta shut down an internal token spend leaderboard after AI costs approached billions annually.

Nadella: you pay for AI twice — with money and your company's data
News15 July 2026

Nadella: you pay for AI twice — with money and your company's data

Satya Nadella published a post warning companies that using external AI models means unknowingly transferring institutional knowledge to vendors. The Microsoft CEO calls for data sovereignty, proprietary learning environments, and model-switching orchestration layers.

Nadella: AI Could Hollow Out Industries Like Globalization Did. His Fix: Build Your Own Token Capital
News16 June 2026

Nadella: AI Could Hollow Out Industries Like Globalization Did. His Fix: Build Your Own Token Capital

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published an essay warning that AI models risk commoditizing entire industries' expertise — analogous to the damage globalization caused to industrial economies. His prescription: build a proprietary learning loop the enterprise owns.

Miasma Worm Hits Microsoft Again: 73 npm Packages Booby-Trapped for AI Agents
News11 June 2026

Miasma Worm Hits Microsoft Again: 73 npm Packages Booby-Trapped for AI Agents

The second supply-chain attack on Microsoft repositories in two months — the Miasma worm hijacked 73 npm packages and triggered a credential stealer the moment a developer opened the project in Claude Code, Cursor, or Gemini CLI.