Microsoft’s new “AI factory” — a purpose-built cluster of thousands of Nvidia GB300 systems running Blackwell Ultra GPUs — has gone live on Azure, and the deployment is being framed as the first step in a global rollout that will underpin OpenAI workloads and a wide range of enterprise AI...
Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry now lists xAI’s Grok 4 Fast SKUs—grok-4-fast-reasoning and grok-4-fast-non-reasoning—giving enterprises an on‑platform path to run Grok’s long‑context, tool‑enabled models with Azure’s governance, enterprise SLAs, and integration surface.
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The race to build the world’s most powerful AI infrastructure has moved out of labs and into entire campuses, and Microsoft’s new Fairwater facility in Wisconsin is the clearest expression yet of that shift — a purpose-built AI factory that stitches together hundreds of thousands of...
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This week’s AI headlines — from a fresh congressional bill that would reshape how high‑performance chips are sold, to the U.S. government’s rollback of an earlier export-control framework, and Microsoft’s quiet decision to split Office 365’s AI supply between OpenAI and Anthropic — have combined...
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