The pace of AI adoption is moving incredibly fast. Customers want measurable business outcomes and their enterprise IP protected. Today, Microsoft is launching Microsoft Frontier Company, a $2.5B investment with 6,000 industry and AI engineering experts working alongside customers to co-design, deploy, and continuously improve AI systems that drive the ROI on AI.

Announced at #MicrosoftBuild, a new partnership with Fireworks AI brings open weight models into Foundry. Developers can build next generation agent applications with more flexibility, strong performance, and enterprise grade governance to scale.