According to its recent earnings report, the tech giant’s revenue has risen 13 per cent to $56.5 billion, as the sale of its AI cloud through Azure has accelerated, all thanks to OpenAI’s GPT.

Microsoft’s decision to throw its weight behind A2A comes after the company introduced support for MCP, Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI to the systems where data resides, in Copilot Studio.

Microsoft said on Monday it would offer new AI models made by Elon Musk's xAI, Meta Platforms and European startups Mistral and Black Forest Labs hosted in its own data centers, and unveiled a new ...