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2025 AI: From Hype to Hypergrowth?
By The Smart Investor  •  February 1, 2025
2025 could be the year we get a glimpse of AI’s true potential. According to Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella, businesses are moving beyond tentative experiments and embracing AI at an enterprise level, eager to unlock its full potential and reap substantial returns on investment. This shift is illustrated by the explosive growth in the company’s AI business, now boasting an annual revenue run rate exceeding $13 billion—a staggering 175% jump year-over-year. Without a doubt, Microsoft is aiming high.

On cloud 9

Microsoft is positioning Azure as the AI infrastructure layer of choice. To support its ambition, Azure is built as a cohesive system, bringing together data centres, networks, racks, and silicon, with every component integrated with efficiency in mind. The strategy is working. Swiss banking giant UBS Group AG (NYSE: UBS), for example, moved mainframe workloads amounting to nearly 400 billion records and two petabytes of data to Microsoft Azure....
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The Smart Investor is co-founded by David Kuo, Joanna Sng, and Chin Hui Leong. The company was formed in late 2019 from the ashes of the Motley Fool Singapore. The Smart Investor believes that everybody can learn how to invest, smartly. We aim to educate people on how to invest smartly by providing investing education, stock commentary and market coverage for Singapore and around the world.
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