Microsoft has launched the Microsoft Frontier Company, a new professional services business dedicated to helping organizations build, manage, and implement artificial intelligence applications. The company is the latest in the tech industry to form a business focused on helping customers understand and deploy AI, following similar moves by Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
The new organization is backed by an initial $2.5 billion investment from Microsoft and is staffed by 6,000 industry and engineering experts. These employees will assist businesses with the strategic and technical work required to deploy artificial intelligence.
Focused on delivering enterprise AI deployments using Microsoft’s existing tools, the venture has already established early partnerships. These include Accenture, Unilever, Land O’Lakes, and the London Stock Exchange Group.