Microsoft vs Nebius Group

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Nebius-managed Kubernetes operator that runs Slurm clusters on GPU infrastructure for fault-tolerant large-scale AI training, with topology-aware scheduling and automatic node health checks and recovery.

Rented GPU clusters with storage and networking for training and serving models, billed by the GPU-hour.

Nebius AI Cloud's on-demand GPU runtime that runs containerised AI workloads as Jobs and hosts custom models behind HTTP Endpoints without provisioning or managing clusters.

Managed inference endpoint serving open-weight models on Nebius hardware, billed per token.