Microsoft Frontier Company says it has worked on nearly 500 AI projects with more than 200 customers in 28 countries. Named customers include Unilever, 3M, BMW, Mastercard, Siemens, and Novo Nordisk.
Microsoft Frontier Company says it has moved past demos. Rodrigo Kede Lima, the unit's president, wrote on November 12 that the question he hears is how to get from AI that impresses to AI that changes how a business runs. To date, we have engaged on nearly 500 projects with over 200 customers across 28 countries.
To date, we have engaged on nearly 500 projects with over 200 customers across 28 countries.
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IDC research commissioned by Microsoft says Frontier Firms, the top 10% on its AI maturity scale, report a 4x return on AI, against 2.7x for slow adopters. The figures are what leaders reported.
Intel is working with RadixArk to optimize SGLang, an open-source inference stack, for Intel CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators. The November 12 release does not include a speed figure.
Microsoft has marked Microsoft 365 business and enterprise services as degraded. The strain comes from servers that became unavailable, not from a rise in traffic, and mailbox access has been affected in the Americas.
United is taking steps to stop unauthorized third-party AI agents from using customer accounts. The airline says those tools can expose logins and can make purchases, account changes, or mileage redemptions the customer did not intend.
IBM has released two experimental Granite 4.1 preview models trained to read and write LLMON, a markup language for model context. The 3 billion and 8 billion previews are meant to separate instructions from data, and the page calls that a learned behavior, not a guarantee.
