Microsoft Sees Huge Profits in AI Consulting and Launches Microsoft Frontier Company

Introducing Microsoft Frontier Company, funded with an initial investment of $2.5 billion and featuring 6,000 experts in the field of artificial intelligence. The goal is to accelerate AI development in businesses. This marks Microsoft's debut in consulting services specifically designed for the AI sector.

Microsoft Enters AI Consulting Services

The world of AI is still in its infancy, as are the projects within companies and the development of related skills. For this reason, it is useful (and potentially very lucrative) for a company with strong expertise in this field like Microsoft to offer consulting services that help other organizations develop their own AI projects.

Microsoft will send its consultants to assist clients in "constantly improving AI systems." It is important to note that, despite it being a novelty for Microsoft and a nascent sector, the company seems to adopt a rather established approach to consulting, with a model where its consultants work at client sites. Adding to this, the new Microsoft Frontier Company lists among its main international partners some of the oldest consulting firms, namely Accenture, Capgemini, EY, KPMG, and PwC.

Microsoft consultants will use, as one might expect, Azure as a foundation for application development; specifically, they will rely on Microsoft Foundry, which provides over 11,000 AI models developed by Microsoft and its partners (including, for example, Anthropic).

Microsoft states in the official announcement that the new entity "is focused on delivering a Frontier Transformation through AI for our clients around the world" and aims to be "the largest, most capable, and results-oriented engineering organization in the industry."