Microsoft
Public
MSFT
AI Integration
Founded 1975Redmond, WA~223,000 (30 Jun 2026) employees
- Market Cap
- ~$3.8T(Sep 2026)
- Total Funding
- Public company,$13B+ invested in OpenAI
- Revenue
- $331.8B(FY2026), +18%
- Profit Status
- Profitable- net income $88B FY2024
- Revenue Growth
- 16% YoY(FY2024)
- Employees
- ~221,000
About Microsoft
Microsoft has made AI central to its business strategy through a multi-billion dollar partnership with OpenAI. Integrates AI across Azure, Office 365, Bing, and GitHub with Copilot products.
Company History
Became a major AI player through $1B OpenAI investment in 2019, expanded to $13B total. Launched Bing with ChatGPT in Feb 2023, then Microsoft Copilot. Acquired Nuance (healthcare AI) for $19.7B in 2022.
AI Models & Benchmarks
3 modelsPhi-3.5 MoE
Open Source
LLM
16x3.8B (MoE)128K ctxAug 2024
Small mixture-of-experts model with strong performance per parameter.
Benchmarks
- MMLU
- 78.9%
- HumanEval
- 88.7%
Phi-3 Mini
Open Source
LLM
3.8B128K ctxApr 2024
Best-in-class small model, runs on device. Outperforms Gemma 7B and Llama 3 8B.
Benchmarks
- MMLU
- 70.9%
- HumanEval
- 82.6%
- MT-Bench
- 8.38/10
Phi-3 Medium
Open Source
LLM
14B128K ctxApr 2024
Mid-size model balancing capability and efficiency.
Benchmarks
- MMLU
- 78.0%
- HumanEval
- 84.1%
Company Timeline
9 milestones- Apr 2019$1B investment in OpenAI begins deep partnership
- Apr 2021GitHub Copilot technical preview - AI pair programmer
- Apr 2022$19.7B acquisition of Nuance Communications (healthcare AI)
- Jan 2023Extended OpenAI partnership; total investment commitment $13B
- Feb 2023New Bing launched with GPT-4 integration
- Mar 2023Microsoft 365 Copilot announced - AI in Word, Excel, Teams
- Sep 2023Copilot branded across all Microsoft products
- Apr 2024Phi-3 Mini - world's best small open-source language model
- Mar 2024Mustafa Suleyman (DeepMind co-founder) hired as CEO of Microsoft AI
Products & Services
6- Microsoft Copilot
- Azure OpenAI
- Copilot 365
- Bing AI
- GitHub Copilot
- Phi-3
People & ecosystem
Key People
- Satya Nadella (CEO)
- Kevin Scott (CTO)
- Mustafa Suleyman (CEO Microsoft AI)
Key Investors
- Public company (NASDAQ: MSFT)
- Top holders: Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street
Competitive Landscape
- Amazon AWS
- Salesforce
- ServiceNow