Azure Government customers can access OpenAI’s GPT-4 model for tasks such as generating answers to research questions, producing computer code and summarizing field reports.
Microsoft’s Azure cloud business has been targeted by the EU's antitrust arm amid complaints the US software firm is leveraging its market power to squeeze out rivals.
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and Apple are investing in efforts to 'reduce greenhouse gas emissions … and to at least match electricity consumption with renewable energy,' says Omdia's Dr. Moises Levy.
Reports say Azure’s sales support teams will be included in Microsoft’s recently announced layoffs, lending credence to widespread speculation around a slowdown in demand for cloud services.
The investment bank forecasts cloud computing overall is entering a maturation that will slow growth from that sector for companies such as Microsoft, AWS, Google, and Oracle.