The verified answer
As of Aug 2026, DEPLOY verifies Microsoft: 27 models. 6 sources back the record.
Patents
5
Overview
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) develops AI, cloud computing, and enterprise software. Azure AI provides infrastructure for autonomous systems and robotics. M12 (Microsoft's venture arm) invests in robotics and AI startups. Partnered with Openai for GPT integration across products.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Headquarters
Founded
Company type
Ownership
Cloud
Venture arm
OpenAI
Founders
Data & sources
News coverage
1
Patent documents
5
6 sources backing this record.View all →
Partnerships
Every company Microsoft has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1NVIDIA2× joint1108 total
- 2Abbott Laboratories1× joint2 total
- 3Active Infrastructure1× joint2 total
- 4Advance Auto Parts1× joint3 total
- 5AGCO1× joint4 total
- 6AGCO Challenger1× joint3 total
Most recent
- Hexagon Robotics × Microsoft2026-01-07with Hexagon Roboticsoperating
- Atom Computing x Microsoft2024-11-19with Atom Computingoperating
- Wayve Series C (2024)2024-05-07with Wayveoperating
- Figure AI Series B (2024)2024-02-29with Figure AIoperating
- Microsoft x Sanctuary AI2024-01-01with Sanctuary AIoperating
Relationships
Founders (2)
- Bill Gatesno longer at company
- Paul Allenno longer at company
Former / Previously (5)
- He Jiabin Research Intern, Microsoft Research Asiasecondary-verified
- Guo Yandong Researcher at Microsoft Seattle headquarterssecondary-verified
- Yoshihito Takashima Software Engineering (Microsoft HQ)secondary-verified
- Bill Gates Foundersecondary-verified
- Paul Allen Foundersecondary-verified
Media (1)
Company-anchored media. Official assets the company has published at the company level, distinct from model-anchored media that lives on individual product pages.
Safety record
No incidents on record for Microsoft.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Microsoft on the data-center map
Every verified data center Microsoft operates that has a mapped coordinate (119 total). Filled circles are Tier-2 facilities and Tier-1 campuses under this operator; click any pin to open its record.
Microsoft data centers (119)
- Khazna QAJ1 Ajman AI-Optimized Data CenterAjman · under construction
- Microsoft Cheyenne Data Center CampusCheyenne · energized
- Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta / QTS Fayetteville CampusFayetteville · partially energized
- Microsoft Fairwater Data CenterMount Pleasant · partially energized
- Microsoft La Porte Data Center CampusLa Porte · under construction
- Microsoft Quantum Lab CopenhagenCopenhagen, Denmark · energized
- Nscale Barstow AI Data CenterBarstow · under construction
- Nscale Loughton AI Data CentreLoughton · permitted
- Microsoft Aldie / Stone Ridge Campus (IAD11)Stone Ridge · operating
- Microsoft Becker Data CenterBecker · planned
- Microsoft Bison Business Park Data CenterCheyenne · operating
- Microsoft Boyd Farms (CLT10) Data CenterMaiden · under construction
- Microsoft Boydton Building 10Boydton · under construction
- Microsoft Boydton Building 9Boydton · operating
- Microsoft Boydton Campus Expansion (AVC17-adjacent)Boydton · planned
- Microsoft Boydton Data Center Campus (BN1)Boydton · operating
- Microsoft Bristow Data Center (MNZ03)Bristow · operating
- Microsoft CLT17 (Stover North) Data CenterHickory · under construction
- Microsoft Catawba County CampusConover · under construction
- Microsoft Catawba County Data CentersConover · announced
AI data centers Microsoft operates or is a party to, from the DEPLOY data center registry.
Recent coverage
Microsoft in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
351 total · 282 operating · 66 just announced
Every company Microsoft has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Hexagon Robotics × Microsoft2026-01-07with Hexagon Roboticsoperating
- Atom Computing x Microsoft2024-11-19with Atom Computingoperating
- Wayve Series C (2024)2024-05-07with Wayveoperating
- Figure AI Series B (2024)2024-02-29with Figure AIoperating
- Microsoft x Sanctuary AI2024-01-01with Sanctuary AIoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1NVIDIA2× joint1108 total
- 2Abbott Laboratories1× joint2 total
- 3Active Infrastructure1× joint2 total
- 4Advance Auto Parts1× joint3 total
- 5AGCO1× joint4 total
- 6AGCO Challenger1× joint3 total
All 351 partnerships
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- technology—operating
- technology—operating
- technology—operating
- technology—operating
Patent estate (5)
- US11151992B2usptograntedgranted 2021-10-26assignee
- US11763143B2usptograntedgranted 2023-09-26assignee
- US12271202B2usptograntedgranted 2025-01-07assignee
- US11872702B2usptograntedgranted 2024-01-16assignee
- EP1941411B1epograntedgranted 2012-06-20assignee
Timeline
Every recorded move in Microsoft’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Started supplyingBecame supplier to Fortem Technologies
2026-08-23Supply: C4 capabilities subcontractor to Fortem Technologies
New supplierNew supplier: Arm Limited
2026-08-23Supply: ARM CPU IP for Azure Cobalt from Arm Limited
Started supplyingBecame supplier to Cruise
2026-08-23Supply: Azure for Cruise to Cruise
Started supplyingBecame supplier to Waymo
2026-08-23Supply: Azure for Waymo to Waymo
Started supplyingBecame supplier to Figure AI
2026-08-23Supply: Azure for Figure AI to Figure AI
Started supplyingBecame supplier to Boston Dynamics
2026-08-23Supply: Azure for BD fleet management to Boston Dynamics
Started supplyingBecame supplier to Figure AI
2026-08-23Supply: Azure for Figure AI to Figure AI
Started supplyingBecame supplier to Boston Dynamics
2026-08-23Supply: Azure for BD robot fleet management to Boston Dynamics
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJul 23, 2026
Microsoft logo
- Record createdJun 25, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment recordedJun 1, 2024
Azure Spain (Aragon) at Aragon
- Deployment recordedAug 1, 2021
Azure Qatar (Doha) at Doha, Qatar
- Deployment recordedJun 1, 2021
Azure Denmark at Copenhagen, Denmark
Sources (1)
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Medium confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- secondary-established-publication
- Established publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Microsoft.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Microsoft from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Anthropic Signs $45B Compute Deal With British Infrastructure Firm Nscale
Anthropic has signed a deal to rent approximately $45 billion in AI compute from Nscale, a British AI infrastructure company, according to a source familiar with the matter.…
Windows 11 may soon let you shut down your PC from your phone
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Microsoft slaps a fresh coat of AI paint on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap
AI at Work roadmap is the new name for upcoming Microsoft 365 capabilities
Bill Gates: AI will either be ‘greatest equalizer’ or ‘worst source of injustice’
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates argued Tuesday that AI will either be the “greatest equalizer ever invented” or the “worst source of injustice,” calling for society to act quickly…
Microsoft staff are burning a median $300 a month on AI, according to their own spreadsheet
An internal spreadsheet where Microsoft employees swap pay details now carries a column for monthly AI spend, with a median of about $300 over 28 days across roughly 350 entries.…
Bill Gates Proposes “Robot Tax” and Protected Jobs to Address AI’s Labor Impact
Bill Gates has published a lengthy essay on his Gates Notes site outlining proposals to manage the social and economic disruption posed by AI. The Microsoft co-founder expressed…
Bill Gates proposes a token tax on AI to protect human workers
Former Microsoft head Bill Gates has a few ideas on how to deal with AI replacing human workers.
Xbox’s OG Green translucent Xbox Series X25 pre-order is here, and boy, it ain’t cheap
Microsoft’s translucent green Xbox Series X25 Limited Edition celebrates 25 years of Xbox with nostalgic design, a Halo bundle and a $899.99 price tag.
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For years, the direction of gaming has seemed pretty clear: digital is in, physical is slowly being left behind. But Microsoft is taking a different approach with a new Xbox…
China’s Moonshot AI in talks with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to bring Kimi K3 to US clouds
China’s Moonshot AI is negotiating with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google over deals that could put its Kimi K3 model inside America’s biggest cloud platforms, creating an unusual…
Top Tech News Today, August 26, 2026: Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Waymo & More
It’s Wednesday, August 26, 2026, and the bill for the AI decade came due in cash, silicon, and human work. Meta is writing a check of up to $16.68 billion to settle claims it…
Xbox 25th Anniversary: Limited-Edition Transparent Accessories Lineup Revealed
To commemorate the Xbox 25th anniversary, accessory makers 8BitDo, GameSir, Backbone, and PowerA have unveiled a lineup of limited-edition transparent gaming accessories accented…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/microsoft.md
- RSS feed: /companies/microsoft/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/b8670b58-67f2-4b87-9b46-9e16588dc1e6
- Revision history: /companies/microsoft/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Video
CNBC's Kate Rooney reports on news regarding Microsoft.
Microsoft ecosystem dominance relies on one key strategy: making their software impossible to avoid. Learn why their platform lock-in works. ✅ Cypher 2026: Joi
MeitY to Empanel 20 AI Firms for Government Upgrade | OpenAI Cuts AI Costs in Half | Vembu Takes on Microsoft | IT Stocks Sink in June | Acceldata Launches XLak
Microsoft silently extended Windows 10’s life another year—and barely told anyone! If you’re sticking with Windows 10, here’s the scoop. Catch more unexpected n
Microsoft AI deployment plans just escalated. Learn how 6,000 specialists are embedding directly into companies to build custom systems. ✅ Cypher 2026: Join 5,
Microsoft has cut nearly five thousand jobs in the latest wave of tech layoffs. The software giant spends heavily on artificial intelligence for the growth of
Microsoft Builds AI Deployment Army | India-Japan Sign Strategic AI & Semiconductor Pacts | Zuck Says AI Agents Aren't Ready Yet | Inside CleverTap's AI Empire
A sense of dread looms over Microsoft employees as layoff rumors intensify. With a significant portion of staff already having voluntarily departed, the upcomin
Microsoft Builds AI Deployment Army | India-Japan Sign Strategic AI & Semiconductor Pacts | Zuck Says AI Agents Aren't Ready Yet | Inside CleverTap's AI Empire
What is Microsoft Frontier Company? Microsoft launched a $2.5B unit that embeds ~6,000 AI experts inside enterprise clients. The hardest part of enterprise AI
Mark Russinovich built his reputation by revealing what powerful companies hoped nobody would inspect. This video starts with the 2005 Sony BMG rootkit scandal,
MSFT stock analysis is absolutely critical right now as Microsoft undergoes its most aggressive market repricing since the dot-com era. In this video, we break
Microsoft shocked the world in 2025 with its claims about the Majorana 1 quantum chip. But a peer-reviewed paper in Nature now says Microsoft’s proof just doesn
Microsoft didn't just launch another AI product. It committed $2.5 billion and 6,000 experts to a new deployment business, and this script argues the real story
Bhavin Turakhia didn't launch just another AI startup. He personally put $30 million behind Neo and aimed it straight at the office software stack dominated by
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Microsoft's Xbox division is facing renewed scrutiny after another round of layoffs, with unions demanding greater transparency despite the company's $89 billio
Microsoft is spending $2.5B to put 6,000 engineers inside your company. Is it the fastest path to AI scale or a golden cage? Executive Summar
Microsoft have destroyed Windows, now… they’re looking to ruin Linux. SOURCE: https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/06/29/microsoft-called-linux-a-cancer-now-ship
Microsoft is mobilizing 6,000 employees in a new unit aimed at helping enterprise clients better utilize AI. Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoft's commercial busin
Reality vs attention
Microsoft draws attention at the 97th percentile but verifies reality at the 96th percentile among other robots. Hype Gap +0.7, 90th widest among other robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 23 verified deployments. Strong deployment footprint with 22 operational sites across 22 countries. Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
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Last computed: Aug 28, 2026
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