AI Daily: Microsoft launches $2.5B AI deployment business Frontier

Catch up on the top artificial intelligence news and commentary by Wall Street analysts on publicly traded companies in the space with this daily recap compiled. MICROSOFT FRONTIER: Microsoft (MSFT) said in a blog post, "Today we are introducing Microsoft Frontier Company, a new operating business focused on delivering Frontier Transformation through AI for our customers around the world.It will provide a unique combination of skills inclusive of deep industry knowledge, change management and continuous improvement experience, and enterprise-grade AI engineering expertise. This goes beyond what has been labeled as Forward Deployed Engineering and will be the largest, most capable, outcome-driven engineering organization in the industry. We are making a $2.5B investment in Microsoft Frontier Company, embedding 6,000 industry and engineering experts at customers to co-design, co-innovate, deploy and continuously improve AI systems at scale based on measurable business outcomes." Microsoft said Rodrigo Kede Lima will be the President of Microsoft Frontier. AI CHATBOT: Microsoft is merging the consumer and enterprise versions of its Copilot AI chatbots into a single application as it.