After 10 consecutive quarters of the increase in its expenditure in artificial intelligence (AI), Microsoft decides to slightly withdraw its financial commitment to booming technology.
According to a financial results report published earlier this week, Microsoft spent about 1 billion dollars less in AI in the first three months of 2025 than in the previous quarter. However, Microsoft has invested $ 21.4 billion in AI in the past three months.
Microsoft was about to spend more than $ 85 billion in AI during the current financial year, before retreating slightly.
This is a start of Microsoft’s practices when the chatgpt chatbot was abandoned for the first time in 2022. The New York TimesMicrosoft has pivoted to create AI data centers so aggressively, an industry analyst called him “greater infrastructure construction that humanity has ever seen”.
The demand for cloud and artificial intelligence remains strong, confirmed Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, on an investor call.
Microsoft’s first quarter results were solid in all areas. Sales exceeded $ 70 billion, up 13% compared to the same period a year earlier, while profits increased to $ 25.8 billion, up 18%, according to The New York Times. Microsoft’s equity price increased by more than 8% in exchanges after opening hours.
