The Amazing Ways Microsoft Uses AI To Drive Business Success

Aside from the services it makes available directly to end users, Microsoft's backbone services are made available to organisations wanting to build their own intelligent tools. The overarching framework is known as Microsoft AI Platform, which ties together a number of more specialised packages such as Microsoft Cognitive Services, Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit and Microsoft Bot Framework. These work by allowing AI (machine learning) algorithms to be deployed on the powerful and popular Azure cloud computing platform, with users simply paying for processing and storage as it is required. Removing the need for organisations to host their own expensive and fast-ageing infrastructure is key to CEO Satya Nadella's vision of "democratising AI".