News Microsoft surprises analysts with massive $80B AI investment plans for 2025

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From large-scale datacenters, to leading-edge AI processors: Microsoft bets big on AI infrastructure.

Microsoft surprises analysts with massive $80B AI investment plans for 2025 : Read more

 

[hotaru251]

"ai" is such a huge waste of $...imagine how much good all the billions spent could have done to better the world at large and instead its wasted on soemthing most people have no care for and has no future where they'll make back even 1% of the $ spent..

 

[ezst036]

Some of that $80 B is so that Microsoft can even better spy on you using its adware telemetry, Recall, and other things nobody but Microsoft wants.

 

[d0x360]

"ai" is such a huge waste of $...imagine how much good all the billions spent could have done to better the world at large and instead its wasted on soemthing most people have no care for and has no future where they'll make back even 1% of the $ spent..

You don't see the value in some sexy AI chat bots? For shame...

Seriously though there is definitely benefits but we are in early days.. like invented the abacus early

 

[passivecool]

Some of that $80 B is so that Microsoft can even better spy on you using its adware telemetry, Recall, and other things nobody but Microsoft wants.

don't forget the development of the microchip terminator robots in the vaccinations 🙄
/irony

1. all the tech giants have so much cash that it is impossible to for them to invest it in any direct business development. So some of the money is developing capacity and some is "riding the elevator" in terms of capital gains.
tech giants got to be tech giants because they made better calls than you did.
2. if you follow the plans to restructure open ai from a NPO to a 4profit+NPO structure, and the controversy surrounding it, then it looks like a good idea for microsofts' to develop it's own capacities, The balance is staying in the race while not triggering antitrust mechanisms.

See:
partnership OpenAI
purchase Nuance
investment G42
inbibing Inflection
investment Mistral
Microsoft und Blackrock plan a 30 bn ai investment fund
all that fun costs cash.

There's always people who overhear the big bang.
Or hear it late.

I have to admit, I was one of them.
My observation was that Axmizon, having bought a new dishwasher there, would offer me, for weeks, more dishwashers.
But the page has turned and every week I can observe new real implementations in software and platforms I use. Some of them are actually really helpful. Looks like baby steps, but the problem is, that innovative companies who are able to adapt can quickly run (processes).

Quote of the Day:
AI will not take away your job.
But someone who knows how to use it will.

 

[ezst036]

don't forget the development of the microchip terminator robots in the vaccinations 🙄

Why would I forget something imaginary like robots that cannot be embedded into Windows OS when I can remember something that not only can be embedded, but is in fact already embedded?

Windows 11 update brings advertisements to the start menu​

https://www.tomshardware.com/softwa...pdate-brings-advertisements-to-the-start-menu

Microsoft's redesign of the Windows 11's Weather app shoves in yet more ads​

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-shoves-ads-into-windows-11s-weather-app

A lot people who are Microsoft/Windows apologists do everything they can to dance around and throw whataboutisms around and throw distractions around to be disruptive but the undeniable fact remains that Microsoft willingly transformed Windows from just an operating system into an operating system with factory spyware and factory adware platform out of the box.

That's simply the fact and there's nothing you can do about it. And I only provided two quick links. Microsoft has loaded up Windows with malicious adware telemetry. This is the new reality. Microsoft did it to themselves, or rather, Microsoft did it against their customers. It's deceitful and aggressive and terrible. This is NOT what their customers purchased Windows for(even as a Best Buy/Walmart/NewEgg pre-load), nobody is seeking an adware OS on their home computer, nobody. Nobody desires the adware and the spyware.

Dance, dance, dance your dance if you must, but I don't buy into the distractions. And Microsoft is trying to revive Recall, despite how unpopular it is.

Nothing I said is inaccurate. This is in part what they're using the $80 B for. To be terrible to their own customers.