Analysts estimate that Microsoft has purchased 485,000 of Nvidia’s flagship Hopper chips this year, twice as many as any of its biggest tech rivals in the US and China.
Analysts estimate that Microsoft has purchased 485,000 of Nvidia’s flagship Hopper chips this year, twice as many as any of its biggest tech rivals in the US and China.
As we can see from the infographic from the Financial Times, TikTok owners ByteDance, as well as another Chinese telecommunications company Tencent, are significantly lagging behind Microsoft.
Even fewer similar Nvidia chips were purchased by Meta, Elon Musk’s Tesla/xAI, Amazon, and Google.
«Microsoft, which invested $13 billion in OpenAI, has been the most aggressive among major U.S. technology companies in building out its data center infrastructure — both to launch its own AI services, such as the Copilot assistant, and to lease to customers through the Azure cloud,» the publication notes.
As dev.ua recently wrote, Microsoft has created a small AI model, Phi-4, which solves mathematical problems better than much larger models from Google.
Microsoft previously introduced 10 AI agents for various business processes in Dynamics 365.
