Microsoft has launched Microsoft Frontier Company (MFC), a new operating business focused on delivering what Microsoft Commercial Business chief executive Judson Althoff “frontier AI transformation through AI for our customers around the world.”
In a post announcing the news, Althoff said that the company is making a US$2.5 billion investment in MFC, embedding 6,000 industry and engineering experts within customers' businesses to co-design, co-innovate, deploy and continuously improve AI systems at scale.
To achieve scale, Microsoft stated it will work closely with its partner ecosystem, touting "robust FDE [forward deployed engineering] partnerships" with global SI partners, including Accenture, Capgemini, EY, KPMG, PwC and others.
Althoff has tapped Rodrigo Kede Lima to be MFC’s president, a 30-year industry veteran who for the past six years at Microsoft has led enterprise-wide transformations as a sales leader in the Americas and Asia.
“I am excited about all the things that Microsoft Frontier Company will do for our customers to realise the gains of Frontier Transformation," Althoff said.
"At the end of the day, it comes down to Intelligence + Trust and empowering our customers to achieve meaningful outcomes and a return on their investments."
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