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Microsoft says cloud AI demand exceeds supply despite spending surge


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  • Microsoft says cloud AI demand exceeds supply despite spending surge.. ; Microsoft's demand for consumption-based artificial intelligence services in the cloud is outstripping supply, CFO Amy Hood said on the company's earnings call. ...
  • It's a boom that was kicked off by OpenAI and its ChatGPT chatbot, and Microsoft has followed suit, adding assistants to the Teams communication app, Bing search engine, and other services. ...
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    Supporting narratives:

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    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Hood said that the capacity issue might have affected AI results and will have an impact in the fiscal fourth quarter. A supply limitation means Microsoft has less available capacity to rent out to clients for deploying AI models at the inference stage, she said. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
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    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • A supply limitation means Microsoft has less available capacity to rent out to clients for deploying AI models at the inference stage, she said. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
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    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • ; Microsoft's demand for consumption-based artificial intelligence services in the cloud is outstripping supply, CFO Amy Hood said on the company's earnings call. The company will again materially bump up capital expenditures in the current quarter, she said ...
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    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • 'We do have demand that exceeds our supply by a bit,'Microsoft CFO Amy Hood told analysts on the company's earnings call. Companies need an ever-increasing amount of compute to run hefty workloads, adding human-like generative AI features into their products ...
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    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • ; Microsoft's demand for consumption-based artificial intelligence services in the cloud is outstripping supply, CFO Amy Hood said on the company's earnings call. The company will again materially bump up capital expenditures in the current quarter, she said. ...
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    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • 'We do have demand that exceeds our supply by a bit,'Microsoft CFO Amy Hood told analysts on the company's earnings call. Companies need an ever-increasing amount of compute to run hefty workloads, adding human-like generative AI features into their products. ...
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    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Microsoft says cloud AI demand exceeds supply despite spending surge.. ; Microsoft's demand for consumption-based artificial intelligence services in the cloud is outstripping supply, CFO Amy Hood said on the company's earnings call ...
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    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Microsoft says cloud AI demand exceeds supply despite spending surge.. ; Microsoft's demand for consumption-based artificial intelligence services in the cloud is outstripping supply, CFO Amy Hood said on the company's earnings call. ...
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    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Microsoft isn't the only AI hardware vendor with a supply challenge. Nvidia. . During the fiscal third quarter, revenue in Microsoft's Azure cloud rose 31%, with 7 percentage points from AI. ...
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    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Microsoft isn't the only AI hardware vendor with a supply challenge. Nvidia. . During the fiscal third quarter, revenue in Microsoft's Azure cloud rose 31%, with 7 percentage points from AI ...
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    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • ; Microsoft's demand for consumption-based artificial intelligence services in the cloud is outstripping supply, CFO Amy Hood said on the company's earnings call. ...
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    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • And she called for higher capital expenditures in the new fiscal year, beginning July 1. Microsoft intends 'to scale to meet the growing demand signal for our cloud and AI products,'she said ...
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    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • It's a boom that was kicked off by OpenAI and its ChatGPT chatbot, and Microsoft has followed suit, adding assistants to the Teams communication app, Bing search engine, and other services. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
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    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • The technology can summarize meeting transcripts, compose emails and explain information from the web. Microsoft isn't the only AI hardware vendor with a supply challenge. Nvidia. . During the fiscal third quarter, revenue in Microsoft's Azure cloud rose 31%, with 7 percentage points from AI ...
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    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Companies need an ever-increasing amount of compute to run hefty workloads, adding human-like generative AI features into their products. It's a boom that was kicked off by OpenAI and its ChatGPT chatbot, and Microsoft has followed suit, adding assistants to the Teams communication app, Bing search engine, and other services ...
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    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • In its earnings report on Thursday, Microsoft said capital expenditures jumped 79% from a year earlier to $14 billion. ...
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    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • ; Microsoft's demand for consumption-based artificial intelligence services in the cloud is outstripping supply, CFO Amy Hood said on the company's earnings call ...
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    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • In its earnings report on Thursday, Microsoft said capital expenditures jumped 79% from a year earlier to $14 billion. The company is spending much faster than it's increasing revenue - sales climbed 17% in the period ...
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    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • In its earnings report on Thursday, Microsoft said capital expenditures jumped 79% from a year earlier to $14 billion. The company is spending much faster than it's increasing revenue - sales climbed 17% in the period. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
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    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • is increasing spending at a rate not seen since at least 2016. It still might not be enough. In its earnings report on Thursday, Microsoft said capital expenditures jumped 79% from a year earlier to $14 billion ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
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    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • The company is spending much faster than it's increasing revenue - sales climbed 17% in the period. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
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    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • And she called for higher capital expenditures in the new fiscal year, beginning July 1. Microsoft intends 'to scale to meet the growing demand signal for our cloud and AI products,'she said. ...
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