Microsoft CEO: Annual Revenue from AI Business Exceeds $37 Billion, Up 123% Year-on-Year
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated that the company's annual revenue from its AI business has surpassed $37 billion, representing a year-on-year increase of 123%.
This quarter, 1 GW of AI computing capacity was added, with plans to double the overall footprint within two years; the number of M365 Copilot seats exceeded 20 million, GitHub Copilot serves 140,000 organizations, and the number of Security Copilot customers has doubled year-on-year.
Enterprise customers are accelerating their procurement of Microsoft's AI infrastructure and Agent platform, shifting funds from traditional software licenses to Agentic workloads and multi-model cloud services. Microsoft's cloud and AI ecosystem is benefiting, while traditional IT infrastructure suppliers are facing demand diversion pressure.
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Satya Nadella has driven Microsoft's transformation from cloud since taking over as CEO in 2014. This financial report emphasizes that Agentic Computing continues its Copilot series strategy initiated in 2023, having previously built a full-stack AI infrastructure through deep collaboration with OpenAI and proprietary model development. This growth marks a transition from the 'experimental phase' to 'scaled revenue validation'.
In terms of capital, Microsoft is investing heavily in data centers and GPUs, achieving high-margin subscription revenue through products like Azure Foundry multi-model platform, M365/Fabric IQ layer, and GitHub Copilot, while the Agent platform attracts enterprises to build their own Agents, creating a capital reinvestment cycle driven by infrastructure and applications.
Similar to the early adoption acceleration of Azure Copilot from 2023-2025, Microsoft is in the mid-expansion phase of transitioning its AI platform from 'end-user driven' to 'Agent-led workloads', with 10,000 customers using multi-models and 5,000 adopting open-source models.
Essentially, this represents a restructuring of the industry chain: the traditional end-user driven software stack is being reshaped by Agentic systems. Nadella is shifting enterprise budgets from single tools to holistic AI workflows through infrastructure and high-value Agents (productivity, coding, security), reconstructing the economic mechanism of technology value creation from 'software licensing' to 'Agent-driven TAM expansion'.