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Microsoft

MSFT

Application

Cloud company that backs OpenAI, builds Copilot, Azure AI, and Microsoft AI.

Total funding—

Market cap$3.7T

Employees223,000

Founded1975

HeadquartersRedmond, USA

StatusPublic

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Microsoft Foundry Platform Sold on its own

  Azure's platform for building, evaluating and deploying model-based applications and agents.

• GitHub Copilot Developer tool Sold on its own

  Coding assistant and agent inside the editor, the CLI and GitHub itself.

• Azure AI Search Data service Sold on its own

  Enterprise retrieval service providing hybrid keyword and vector search plus RAG grounding over an organisation's own data, also surfaced inside Microsoft Foundry as Foundry IQ.

• Microsoft Copilot Application Sold on its own

  Microsoft's assistant for chat, search and work inside Windows and the Microsoft 365 apps.

• Microsoft Copilot Studio Agent platform Sold on its own

  Low-code platform for building, connecting and publishing custom conversational and autonomous AI agents across Microsoft 365, the web and business channels.

• Microsoft Security Copilot Application Sold on its own

  Security-operations assistant that summarises threat signals and helps analysts detect, investigate and respond to incidents in natural language.

• Azure AI Bot Service Application Sold on its own

  Integrated development environment for building conversational bots, integrating with Microsoft Copilot Studio for low-code bot building.

• Azure Content Understanding API service Sold on its own

  Multimodal Azure AI service that extracts structured insights from unstructured content (documents, images, audio, video) into custom-defined schemas.

• Azure AI Custom Vision API service Sold on its own

  Image-recognition service for building custom image classification and object-detection models; distinct from the general-purpose Azure AI Vision service.

• Azure Document Intelligence API service Sold on its own

  Extracts text, structure and key-value pairs from documents (invoices, receipts, forms, ID cards) via prebuilt and custom models.

• Azure AI Immersive Reader API service Sold on its own

  Embeddable reading-comprehension tool that improves text readability for users of all ages and abilities.

• Azure Language in Foundry Tools API service Sold on its own

  NLP service for sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction, entity recognition, summarization, question answering and conversational language understanding.

• Azure Machine Learning API service Sold on its own

  End-to-end platform for building, training, deploying and managing machine-learning models at enterprise scale.

• Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models API service Sold on its own

  Hosted access to OpenAI's GPT, embedding and image models with Azure enterprise security, networking and compliance, under Microsoft Foundry's current branding.

• Azure Speech in Foundry Tools API service Sold on its own

  Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, speech translation and speaker recognition as an Azure API service.

• Azure Translator in Foundry Tools API service Sold on its own

  Real-time and batch text translation API supporting 100+ languages.

• Azure AI Video Indexer API service Sold on its own

  Extracts insights from video and audio — transcription, face/object detection, sentiment, topics — via API.

• Azure Vision in Foundry Tools API service Sold on its own

  Image analysis, OCR, spatial analysis and face detection as an Azure API service.

• Microsoft Dragon Copilot API service Sold on its own

  AI assistant for clinicians that combines ambient conversation capture, clinical documentation and voice-driven EHR/order workflows into one product.

Inside Azure AI Search

• Foundry IQ API service Included with the parent

  Context-engineering platform giving AI agents agentic retrieval across enterprise data sources (SharePoint, Blob Storage, the web) with permission-aware security.

Inside Microsoft 365

• Microsoft 365 Copilot Application Paid add-on to the parent

  AI assistant embedded in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams that grounds its answers in a customer's own business data and ships with pre-built agents.

Inside Microsoft 365 Copilot

• Copilot Cowork AI agent Paid add-on to the parent

  Agentic feature of Microsoft 365 Copilot that plans and executes multi-step, multi-app tasks end-to-end and returns a finished deliverable rather than a draft.

Inside Microsoft Foundry

• Foundry Agent Service API service Included with the parent

  Managed service for building, deploying and orchestrating enterprise AI agents with tool calling, state management and multi-turn conversations.

• Content Safety in Foundry Control Plane API service Included with the parent

  Detects harmful text/image content (hate, violence, sexual, self-harm) for generative-AI applications, billed per text/image record analyzed.

• Foundry Models API service Included with the parent

  Model catalog (11,000+ models from Azure, Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, Hugging Face and others) with managed-compute and serverless per-token deployment.

• Observability in Foundry Control Plane API service Included with the parent

  Evaluation, production monitoring and distributed tracing for generative-AI applications, billed by consumption per the Foundry observability pricing page.

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Market cap

Third-party database · 27 Aug 2026

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Employees

Regulatory filing · 30 Jun 2026

MICROSOFT CORP Form 10-K (Item 1, Human Capital), SEC, filed 2026-07-29, for the period ended 2026-06-30. Filing states: "As of June 30, 2026, we employed approximately 223,000 people on a full-time basis." CIK 789019.

Founded

Wikipedia · 27 Aug 2026

Wikipedia infobox "founded" field, read 2026-08-27.

Revenue (TTM)

Regulatory filing · 30 Jun 2026

MICROSOFT CORP Form 10-K, SEC, filed 2026-07-29, for fiscal year ended 2026-06-30. us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax per XBRL, audited. This is the trailing twelve months AS OF the fiscal year end, not as of today. CIK 789019.

Description

Company disclosure · 9 Sep 2026

"AI-first" has no reachable source: Microsoft's own about page states its mission as empowering "every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more", with no AI-first framing anywhere on the page. The rest of the sentence — OpenAI, Copilot, Azure AI, Microsoft AI — is unaffected.

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