Microsoft has integrated cutting-edge models from OpenAI and advanced hardware accelerators from NVIDIA and AMD into its Azure cloud platform to strengthen its position in the AI market. The Azure OpenAI Service now provides access to GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo models from OpenAI. Microsoft added new AI accelerators from AMD and Nvidia and its own first party silicon called Azure Maia. Microsoft has over 60,000 Azure AI customers and saw a 60% year-over-year growth in this customer base.