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Building a startup takes more than speed. It takes the right support. 🚀 Annie Pearl shares how Microsoft for Startups helps founders build fast, scale smart, and sell more with credits, technical guidance, GTM support, and marketplace opportunities. Apply to Microsoft for Startups: msft.it/6015Qfg1H #MicrosoftForStartups #Startups #AI
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Did you catch us in Times Square? 👀🗽 We took Microsoft for Startups to the big screen to celebrate some of the incredible startups building with us, including @FerrumHealth, @lancedb and @Middleware_Labs. Ready to see where your startup could go next? Learn more about Microsoft for Startups here: msft.it/6014aiMz4
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Keep your eyes on Times Square. 👀 @FerrumHealth, @lancedb and @Middleware_Labs are about to have their moment in the spotlight! Watch this space⬇️msft.it/6019a92iZ
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SF @Techweek_ , here we come! 🤖 AI agents 🥯 Bots & bagels 🚀 GTM 🍽️ Founder dinner 🌆 Rooftop happy hour Join us across San Francisco Oct. 5–9. Swipe through the lineup + RSVP here: msft.it/6015a9Jzf #SFTechWeek #MicrosoftforStartups
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Can AI help transform clinical trials while keeping humans in the loop? IgniteData COO Richard Yeatman shares why compliance, explainability, and observability matter when bringing AI into clinical research. Read this week's edition of Founder Friday here: msft.it/6016ag918 #AI #ClinicalResearch #MicrosoftForStartups
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A great AI agent needs more than a great model. 🤖 Datox shares 6 lessons for building agents for real enterprise workflows, from structured tools and outputs to user approval and observability. Read more here: msft.it/6017a5dof #Microsoftforstartups #AI #Startups
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For founders building what’s next in AI and the path forward is about more than capability. It’s also about control, choice and ownership. Satya Nadella shares @Microsoft's perspective on the path to superintelligence and keeping people at the center of what comes next. 🧠 ⬇️
Any pursuit of superintelligence has to be grounded in the core principle that if the AI we build is not helping humanity and under human control, it's not worth pursuing. We also need to accelerate and spread the benefits of AI, such that they are diffused broadly across countries, communities, and companies. This requires a frontier ecosystem in which both closed and open-source models can thrive. And for firms, it’s imperative that they retain full control over their unique and tacit knowledge. Every organization should be able to build its own continuous learning loop/hill climbing machine, without becoming dependent on any one model provider, and have the ability to embed its own knowledge into models and weights they control. So, in this context, we welcome the research, focus, and deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right as the design goal. We also welcome ideas like "embedded evaluators" and the broader efforts to develop the mechanisms to make this more than just talk. The key is that this cannot be controlled by a handful of entities, but must have broad representation across the ecosystem, countries, and fields, including academia. This is the approach we are taking: broad access and choice at every layer of the AI stack; enterprise control of learning loops and models; and the “Code of Conduct” that underlies our own first party MAI models that we’ll publish tomorrow for public consultation.
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More ways to build. More ways to scale. 🚀 Exciting to see @SurrealDB bring SurrealDB Cloud to Microsoft Azure, opening up new possibilities for teams building in the cloud☁️
Using @Azure? SurrealDB Cloud, our managed multi-model database service, is now available on Azure. Get private connectivity, lower latency, better data residency, simpler security, plus simplify procurement with Azure Marketplace. Get the details. 👉 sdb.li/4yJz9fx
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Building on Azure? ☁️ Make your Startup credits work smarter. 🔎 Check what’s covered 🤖 Confirm model eligibility 📊 Monitor usage 🔔 Set budgets + alerts A little planning goes a long way. 👇 msft.it/6016ajd7q #MicrosoftForStartups #Azure #StartupTips #Founders #AI
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The future of development starts at @github Universe. 🚀 Join builders, founders, and developers to explore the latest in AI-powered software development, agentic workflows and the tools shaping what's next. Sign up today: msft.it/6011abPTB #GitHubUniverse #AI #Startups #MicrosoftForStartups #Devs
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From AI adoption to AI advantage. Join Microsoft for Startups's Ayo Haruna and Bhaskar Lokanathan with founders, investors, and AI leaders to discuss the next wave of enterprise AI. RSVP by Sept. 23: msft.it/6017abTAD #MicrosoftForStartups #EnterpiseAI #AIStartups
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What happens when AI is applied to one of the world's biggest challenges: access to financial services? Welcount is using technology to break down barriers, expand access to financial services, and help more people build financial confidence. Learn how they're using AI and Azure to drive meaningful impact: msft.it/6014akFkQ #AIInnovation #FinancialInclusion #MicrosoftforStartups #Startups
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Really enjoyed @openclaw's conversation with @github about the challenges of scaling open source without sacrificing quality or security ⬇️
OpenClaw went from a weekend project to one of @github's fastest-growing open source projects. Six months in, @steipete and several maintainers share what they learned about scaling contributions, trust, code review, and security. piped.video/5VSwaUXtPIE?si=PP1N…
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Excited to welcome Stuut to the Microsoft for Startups Pegasus Program!🚀 By building on Microsoft Azure and integrating with Dynamics 365, Stuut is helping enterprise finance teams put AI agents to work across the order-to-cash process. We’re looking forward to supporting the Stuut team as they continue to scale and bring their technology to more Microsoft customers⬇️
Today, we're proud to announce the next phase of Stuut's work with @Microsoft: our listing on the Microsoft Marketplace, and an investment into Stuut from @M12vc, Microsoft's Venture Fund. Microsoft brought tens of thousands of enterprises into the digital age, and they're in the middle of bringing AI to the Fortune 1000. This is not easy - many of these enterprises don't have the resources, time, or expertise to adopt AI effectively, or operate with agents. Stuut makes that easier. Our agent automates 100% of the work for Tier 3 customers, and frees these teams up to focus on more complex accounts. Through Microsoft Marketplace and Azure, enterprise finance teams can purchase and deploy autonomous order-to-cash through the Microsoft procurement and cloud commitments they already use. Stuut also integrates with Microsoft Dynamics 365, allowing finance teams to automate collections, cash application, payments, credit, disputes, and deductions while keeping their existing ERP environment. In addition, we've been accepted into the Microsoft for Startups Pegasus program. We're excited to bring our autonomous order-to-cash agent to more enterprise finance teams.
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What does it take to build AI for regulated enterprise customers? PONS shares three architecture decisions behind its Azure-based platform for legal teams, including data separation, managed services and compliance controls. Read more: msft.it/6012aros2
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AI budgets are growing. The question is whether organizations can scale them efficiently. Explore our "The Economics of Agent Optimization" series to learn how organizations are optimizing requests, improving workflows, and governing AI spend with Microsoft Foundry: msft.it/6015aRHKc
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Building AI isn't a one-size-fits-all. Daniel Arrizza of @anyscalecompute shares how the company's platform helps builders create custom AI models with their own data, scale training and inference workloads and bring AI applications to production on @Azure. #MicrosoftForStartups #OpenSourceAI #Azure
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