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OpenAI and Anthropic among them, as disclosed in its filings, earnings calls and announcements","Consumer AI at Microsoft, such as the Copilot app, AI in Bing search and AI features in consumer Microsoft 365 subscriptions","Microsoft's capital spending and data centre leases, as filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), its contracts for rented computing capacity, and what that capacity costs to run","Measures of whether AI pays for itself at Microsoft, such as operating income, the gross margin on the Microsoft Cloud, free cash flow and revenue under contract that Microsoft has not yet recognized","Competition for businesses' spending on AI from other cloud providers and from AI companies that offer their own tools to businesses","Surveys of how widely businesses use AI in their work"],"question":"Through the end of 2027, where does Microsoft's growth from artificial intelligence (AI) come from, and does it pay for what Microsoft spends to get it?","geography":"Global","outOfScope":["Investment advice about any company","The price of Microsoft's shares and how the stock market values the company","Cross-border trade and technology policy","The capabilities of AI models and questions of AI safety","Microsoft's gaming business and its revenue from Windows and devices, except for AI features offered to consumers","The finances of OpenAI and other AI companies, except where they change what those companies pay Microsoft or the capacity they rent from it","Lawsuits and regulatory investigations, including competition and privacy cases, except where a ruling changes how Microsoft may price or package its AI"]},"title":"Where Microsoft's growth from AI comes from, and whether it pays for itself","schema":"judgment-demo.author-file.v1","status":"ready","thesis":{"statement":"Through 2027, Microsoft's growth from AI comes mainly from a broad base of businesses paying for AI in its cloud and its office software, and that revenue grows 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More paid seats across more employers supports the assessment.","publicSeries":[],"evidenceLooksLike":["Microsoft reports a higher count of paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats.","A large employer announces that it is giving Microsoft 365 Copilot to all or most of its staff.","Microsoft reports more customers with very large Copilot deployments."]},{"key":"M3","sign":"+","title":"Contracted business from customers other than OpenAI","meaning":"Revenue that customers other than OpenAI have committed to under contract and Microsoft has not yet recognized, which Microsoft reports on its earnings calls as growth in its commercial remaining performance obligation excluding OpenAI. Growth shows broad business demand arriving ahead of revenue.","publicSeries":[],"evidenceLooksLike":["Microsoft reports faster growth in its commercial remaining performance obligation excluding OpenAI.","Microsoft announces a large multiyear cloud agreement with a company outside the AI industry."]},{"key":"M4","sign":"-","title":"Growth that rests on a few AI model developers","meaning":"The share of Microsoft's AI revenue and contracted business that comes from a few AI model developers, OpenAI above all. A larger share undercuts the assessment, because more of the growth then depends on a few customers.","publicSeries":[],"evidenceLooksLike":["Microsoft discloses more revenue from OpenAI, or a larger share of its contracted business from OpenAI.","An AI model developer signs a large new commitment for Azure capacity.","An AI model developer moves work from Azure to another cloud provider, which bears on the factor in the other direction."]},{"key":"M5","sign":"-","title":"Consumer AI growth at Microsoft","meaning":"Growth in what consumers pay Microsoft for AI, and in the advertising revenue AI brings, through the Copilot app, AI in Bing search and AI features in consumer Microsoft 365 subscriptions. Strong consumer growth undercuts the assessment.","publicSeries":[],"evidenceLooksLike":["Microsoft reports faster growth in consumer Microsoft 365 subscriptions and links it to AI features.","Microsoft reports growth in search advertising that it links to AI in Bing or the Copilot app.","Microsoft reports a large rise in paying users of its consumer Copilot app."]}],"statement":"Businesses across many industries, paying for AI in Azure and in Microsoft 365, are the main source of Microsoft's AI growth through 2027, ahead of OpenAI and the other AI model developers that rent its computing capacity, and ahead of consumers.","assumptions":[{"key":"MA1","statement":"Customers other than OpenAI keep adding to the business they have contracted with Microsoft.","criticality":"linchpin","criterionSources":[{"url":"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/fy-2026/earnings-fy-2026-q4","name":"Microsoft Investor Relations, transcript of the earnings call for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2026, which reports growth in commercial remaining performance obligation excluding OpenAI"},{"url":"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor","name":"Microsoft Investor Relations, earnings releases, webcasts and call transcripts"}],"invalidationCriterion":"Invalidated if, on two consecutive quarterly earnings calls, Microsoft reports that its commercial remaining performance obligation excluding OpenAI, meaning the revenue that customers other than OpenAI have committed to under contract and Microsoft has not yet recognized, was lower than a year earlier. If Microsoft stops reporting the figure excluding OpenAI, the assumption is reviewed rather than invalidated."},{"key":"MA2","statement":"OpenAI accounts for less than half of the growth in Microsoft's Azure revenue.","criticality":"bridge","criterionSources":[{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/000119312526323660/R11.htm","name":"Microsoft annual report on Form 10-K for fiscal year 2026, note on accounting policies, which discloses revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI"},{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0000789019/000119312526380280/d291965dex991.htm","name":"Microsoft, Form 8-K of September 2026, presentation on fiscal year 2027 segments and metrics, with Azure revenue restated under the new definition"},{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000789019&type=10-&dateb=&owner=include&count=40","name":"SEC EDGAR, Microsoft's quarterly and annual reports (CIK 789019)"}],"invalidationCriterion":"Invalidated if the increase from fiscal year 2026 to fiscal year 2027 in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, a figure that includes OpenAI's revenue-sharing payments, as disclosed in the notes to Microsoft's annual reports on Form 10-K, is more than half the increase in Azure revenue over the same two fiscal years, with Azure revenue taken as Microsoft reports it under the definition it adopted for fiscal year 2027. Microsoft's fiscal year runs from July to June. If Microsoft stops disclosing either figure, the assumption is reviewed rather than invalidated."},{"key":"MA3","statement":"Consumer AI remains a small part of Microsoft's growth from AI.","criticality":"background","criterionSources":[{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0000789019/000119312526380280/d291965dex991.htm","name":"Microsoft, Form 8-K of September 2026, presentation on the Agents and Infra and Devices and Consumer segments from fiscal year 2027"},{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000789019&type=10-&dateb=&owner=include&count=40","name":"SEC EDGAR, Microsoft's quarterly and annual reports (CIK 789019)"}],"invalidationCriterion":"Invalidated if, in two consecutive quarters, revenue in Microsoft's Devices and Consumer segment rises by a larger amount year over year than revenue in its Agents and Infra segment, as reported in the segment information of its quarterly report on Form 10-Q or annual report on Form 10-K. If Microsoft changes these segments, the assumption is reviewed rather than invalidated."}],"keyJudgment":"Microsoft earns from businesses' use of AI in two main ways: through computing and AI services in Azure, its cloud platform, and through Copilot and AI agents built into Microsoft 365 and its other business software. A large share of the new business it has signed, however, comes from AI model developers, the companies such as OpenAI that build AI models and rent computing capacity on a scale no ordinary business approaches. This assessment holds that businesses across many industries remain the larger source of growth. It would weaken if Microsoft's contracted business outside OpenAI stopped growing, if OpenAI came to account for most of the growth in Azure, or if paid use of Copilot stalled while AI model developers kept signing large commitments.","publicLabel":"Main assessment","alternatives":[{"key":"MX1","statement":"AI model developers, OpenAI above all, are the main source of Microsoft's AI growth, so that growth rises and falls with a few customers.","favouredBy":["Microsoft's contracted business keeps rising quickly while the part outside OpenAI grows slowly.","Microsoft's annual report shows revenue from OpenAI growing faster than Azure.","AI model developers account for the largest new commitments for Azure capacity."],"ruledOutBy":["Azure keeps growing quickly while AI model developers move work to other cloud providers.","Revenue from OpenAI grows more slowly than Azure over a full fiscal year."]},{"key":"MX2","statement":"Consumers become a major source of Microsoft's AI growth, through the Copilot app, search advertising and AI in consumer subscriptions.","favouredBy":["Microsoft reports that consumer products contributed a large part of its growth in AI revenue.","Revenue in the Devices and Consumer segment grows faster than revenue in the Agents and Infra segment, and Microsoft links the difference to AI."],"ruledOutBy":["Consumer revenue growth slows while business cloud revenue keeps growing quickly."]}],"causesOfUncertainty":["Microsoft does not report its revenue from AI as a regular separate figure, so the sources of its AI growth have to be read from Azure, Copilot and contracted-business figures that also include other business.","Microsoft has disclosed its revenue from OpenAI only in its annual report, as a single figure that includes OpenAI's revenue-sharing payments as well as payment for computing.","From fiscal year 2027, which began in July 2026, Microsoft reports its business in two new segments and counts less of it as Azure, so figures from before and after the change need care when compared.","Demand for Azure has exceeded the capacity Microsoft has available, so its growth reflects how fast Microsoft can build as well as how much each kind of customer wants."],"whatWouldChangeOurMind":["Microsoft reporting that its contracted business outside OpenAI has stopped growing.","Microsoft's annual report showing that OpenAI accounted for more than half of the year's growth in Azure.","Paid Copilot seats holding flat for two quarters while AI model developers sign large new commitments for Azure capacity."]},{"key":"rests_on","kind":"secondary","factors":[{"key":"R1","sign":"+","title":"Employers moving AI from trials to whole workforces","meaning":"Employers moving from trials with small groups to giving AI tools to most of their staff, whether Microsoft's tools or others'. More of these moves mean business use of AI is widening.","publicSeries":[],"evidenceLooksLike":["A large employer announces that it is giving an AI assistant to all or most of its staff.","A survey of employers reports more firms using AI across their whole workforce.","A government statistical agency reports a rise in the share of businesses using AI."]},{"key":"R2","sign":"+","title":"AI agents at work and charges based on use","meaning":"Businesses running AI agents in their everyday operations and paying for AI by the amount they use, through Azure, Microsoft 365 and similar products. Rising use and spending of this kind show AI built into daily work.","publicSeries":[],"evidenceLooksLike":["Microsoft reports growth in the AI agents its customers run, or in the AI work processed on its platforms.","Microsoft introduces or widens charges based on the amount of AI used in its business software.","A business reports running AI agents in its everyday operations on Microsoft's products."]},{"key":"R3","sign":"+","title":"What businesses pay for AI","meaning":"Whether businesses accept higher list prices or new paid tiers for AI in Microsoft's business software. Prices that hold show that businesses see enough value to keep paying.","publicSeries":[],"evidenceLooksLike":["Microsoft raises list prices or adds a paid tier for AI in its business software.","Microsoft reports revenue per user rising in its business cloud and links it to AI.","Microsoft cuts prices, deepens discounts or includes AI at no extra charge to widen use, which bears on the factor in the other direction."]},{"key":"R4","sign":"-","title":"Businesses choosing other providers' AI tools","meaning":"Businesses paying for AI assistants, agents and models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and other providers in place of Microsoft's. More of this means business demand for AI rises without reaching Microsoft.","publicSeries":[],"evidenceLooksLike":["A large employer chooses another provider's AI assistant for its whole workforce.","An AI company launches workplace software that competes with Microsoft 365.","Another cloud provider reports AI revenue growing faster than Microsoft reports for Azure."]},{"key":"R5","sign":"-","title":"Trials that stall or shrink","meaning":"Reports that businesses are pausing, shrinking or ending AI trials and licences because the returns are unclear, the costs are high or staff do not use the tools.","publicSeries":[],"evidenceLooksLike":["A survey of employers reports that most AI trials have not moved to wider use.","A company reports ending or cutting its Copilot licences for lack of use.","Microsoft is reported to have lowered sales targets for its AI products."]}],"statement":"Businesses keep moving from trials of AI tools to paid use across their workforces and operations, so business demand for Microsoft's AI keeps rising through 2027.","assumptions":[{"key":"RA1","statement":"Paid use of Microsoft 365 Copilot keeps growing from quarter to quarter.","criticality":"linchpin","criterionSources":[{"url":"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/earnings/fy-2026-q4/press-release-webcast","name":"Microsoft Investor Relations, earnings release for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2026, which reports paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats"},{"url":"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/fy-2026/earnings-fy-2026-q4","name":"Microsoft Investor Relations, transcript of the earnings call for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2026"}],"invalidationCriterion":"Invalidated if a count of paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats that Microsoft reports in a quarterly earnings release or on an earnings call is no higher than the latest count it had reported for a quarter ending six or more months earlier. A count given as a minimum is read as that minimum. If Microsoft stops reporting a count, the assumption is reviewed rather than invalidated."},{"key":"RA2","statement":"Business demand for Azure keeps growing faster than the capacity Microsoft can add.","criticality":"bridge","criterionSources":[{"url":"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/earnings/fy-2026-q4/metrics","name":"Microsoft Investor Relations, investor metrics for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2026, including Azure revenue growth"},{"url":"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/fy-2026/earnings-fy-2026-q4","name":"Microsoft Investor Relations, transcript of the earnings call for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2026, which describes demand as exceeding available capacity"}],"invalidationCriterion":"Invalidated if Azure revenue growth, year over year as reported in Microsoft's quarterly earnings releases, is lower than in the previous quarter in three consecutive quarters, and on the earnings calls for all three of those quarters Microsoft does not describe its capacity as short of customer demand. If Microsoft stops reporting Azure growth, the assumption is reviewed rather than invalidated."},{"key":"RA3","statement":"A growing share of businesses in the United States, Microsoft's largest market, use AI in their work.","criticality":"background","criterionSources":[{"url":"https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2026/05/ai-use-businesses.html","name":"US Census Bureau, Large Firms With at Least 20 Employees Biggest AI Users, 26 May 2026, on the AI questions in the Business Trends and Outlook Survey"},{"url":"https://www.census.gov/hfp/btos/data","name":"US Census Bureau, Business Trends and Outlook Survey data"}],"invalidationCriterion":"Invalidated if, in every release of the US Census Bureau's Business Trends and Outlook Survey over three consecutive months, the share of businesses reporting that they used AI in any business function in the previous two weeks is lower than in the matching period a year earlier, comparing only periods asked with the same question. If the Census Bureau stops asking the question, the assumption is reviewed rather than invalidated."}],"keyJudgment":"The main assessment holds only while business use of AI keeps widening, from trials and small groups of users to paid use across whole workforces and in everyday operations. Microsoft's paid Copilot seats doubled in the first half of 2026, yet in mid-2026 fewer than one in ten of the paid business seats on Microsoft 365 carried a paid Copilot licence. Microsoft has also begun to charge for some AI agent work by the amount used, which links its revenue to use as well as to seats. The assessment would weaken if seat counts stalled, if Azure growth slowed while Microsoft had capacity to spare, or if businesses chose other providers' AI tools for their whole workforces.","publicLabel":"The condition it rests on","alternatives":[{"key":"RX1","statement":"Businesses keep AI with small groups of heavy users, so paid use levels off well short of whole workforces.","favouredBy":["Paid Copilot seats grow slowly while use per seat rises.","Surveys report that most employers limit AI tools to selected teams."],"ruledOutBy":["Large employers report company-wide rollouts and Microsoft reports seat counts rising quickly."]},{"key":"RX2","statement":"Businesses adopt AI mainly through other providers, so business demand for AI rises without reaching Microsoft.","favouredBy":["Large employers choose another provider's AI assistant for their whole workforce.","AI model developers report faster growth in revenue from businesses than Microsoft reports for Copilot and Azure."],"ruledOutBy":["Microsoft reports Copilot seats and Azure revenue growing faster than rivals report for their business AI."]},{"key":"RX3","statement":"Microsoft's growth from business customers comes mainly from higher prices on software they already use, with little new use of AI.","favouredBy":["Revenue per user rises after price increases while paid Copilot seats grow slowly.","Customers report paying more for the same software without wider use of AI."],"ruledOutBy":["Paid Copilot seats and charges based on AI use grow faster than revenue per user."]}],"causesOfUncertainty":["A paid seat shows that a licence was paid for, which is weaker evidence than regular use, and Microsoft reports measures of use only from time to time.","Microsoft raised list prices for many of its business software suites from July 2026 and pointed to added AI, security and management features, so revenue per user can rise without any new use of AI.","Surveys of business use of AI ask different questions of different groups of firms, so their levels differ widely and only changes within one survey can be compared."],"whatWouldChangeOurMind":["Microsoft reporting a count of paid Copilot seats no higher than the count two quarters earlier.","Azure growth slowing for three quarters running while Microsoft says it has capacity to spare.","Several large employers choosing another provider's AI assistant for their whole workforce."]},{"key":"if_wrong","kind":"contingent","factors":[{"key":"C1","sign":"+","title":"Cloud gross margin falling as AI costs rise","meaning":"The gross margin on the Microsoft Cloud, which Microsoft reports each quarter, falling because the cost of AI capacity, mainly depreciation and running costs, grows faster than the revenue it brings. The Microsoft Cloud is Microsoft's measure that combines Azure, its business Microsoft 365 cloud services and its industry cloud services.","publicSeries":[],"evidenceLooksLike":["Microsoft reports a lower gross margin percentage for the Microsoft Cloud and links it to spending on AI capacity.","A quarterly filing shows depreciation growing faster than revenue.","Microsoft reports a higher cloud gross margin and cites efficiency, which bears on the factor in the other direction."]},{"key":"C2","sign":"+","title":"Free cash flow squeezed by spending","meaning":"The cash Microsoft's operations generate, less what it spends on property and equipment, falling as spending rises faster than the cash its revenue brings in.","publicSeries":[],"evidenceLooksLike":["An earnings release shows free cash flow lower than a year earlier because of higher capital spending.","Microsoft relies more on leases or borrowing to pay for new capacity.","Microsoft reports a quarter in which its spending on property and equipment exceeded the cash its operations generated."]},{"key":"C3","sign":"+","title":"Higher prices for chips, memory and power","meaning":"Rising prices for the components and power that AI capacity needs, which raise the cost of each unit of capacity without raising the revenue it brings.","publicSeries":[],"evidenceLooksLike":["Microsoft links part of a rise in its capital spending to higher prices for components.","Makers of memory chips or AI accelerators raise their prices.","Power contracts for new data centres are signed at higher prices."]},{"key":"C4","sign":"+","title":"AI model developers paying less, later or elsewhere","meaning":"AI model developers that have committed to Azure capacity reducing, delaying or renegotiating those commitments, or moving work to other providers, which leaves capacity built for them earning less than planned.","publicSeries":[],"evidenceLooksLike":["Microsoft reports a reduction or renegotiation of a large commitment from an AI model developer.","An AI model developer reports difficulty raising the money to pay for computing it has contracted.","An AI model developer moves work from Azure to another cloud provider."]},{"key":"C5","sign":"-","title":"Operating profit growing alongside spending","meaning":"Microsoft's operating profit, its operating income, growing year over year while its capital spending rises. This shows revenue covering the rising cost, which weakens this assessment.","publicSeries":[],"evidenceLooksLike":["An earnings release shows operating income up from a year earlier while capital spending rises.","Microsoft keeps its outlook for operating margin close to the previous year's."]},{"key":"C6","sign":"+","title":"Projects slowed, paused or dropped for demand or returns","meaning":"Microsoft slowing, pausing or cancelling data centre projects, or walking away from leases and contracts for rented capacity, where the reason given is demand or returns. A change Microsoft attributes to accounting or to the timing of deliveries does not count.","publicSeries":[],"evidenceLooksLike":["Microsoft lowers its capital spending outlook and cites demand or returns.","Microsoft is reported to have walked away from data centre leases or contracts for rented capacity.","Microsoft pauses a data centre project and cites demand."]}],"statement":"The cost of the AI capacity Microsoft builds rises faster than the revenue that capacity brings, so that by the end of 2027 Microsoft's operating profit stops growing or Microsoft cuts back its capital spending.","assumptions":[{"key":"CA1","statement":"Microsoft's capacity catches up with the demand for it before the end of 2027.","criticality":"linchpin","criterionSources":[{"url":"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/fy-2026/earnings-fy-2026-q4","name":"Microsoft Investor Relations, transcript of the earnings call for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2026, which states that customer demand continues to exceed available capacity"},{"url":"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/fy-2026/earnings-fy-2026-q3","name":"Microsoft Investor Relations, transcript of the earnings call for the third quarter of fiscal year 2026, which expects capacity to remain constrained at least through 2026"}],"invalidationCriterion":"Invalidated if, on its earnings call for the quarter ending 30 September 2027, Microsoft says that customer demand still exceeds the capacity it has available, or that it remains short of capacity. If Microsoft makes no statement about its capacity on that call, the assumption is reviewed rather than invalidated."},{"key":"CA2","statement":"Microsoft paces its capital spending to the returns it can see.","criticality":"bridge","criterionSources":[{"url":"https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyconcept/CIK0000789019/us-gaap/PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment.json","name":"SEC, XBRL data for Microsoft, PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment"},{"url":"https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyconcept/CIK0000789019/us-gaap/OperatingIncomeLoss.json","name":"SEC, XBRL data for Microsoft, OperatingIncomeLoss"}],"invalidationCriterion":"Invalidated if Microsoft's quarterly payments for property and equipment rise year over year in two consecutive quarters in which its operating income falls year over year, as filed with the SEC in its structured data format, XBRL (concepts PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment, with year-to-date figures differenced into quarters and the fourth quarter taken as the annual figure less nine months, and OperatingIncomeLoss). If Microsoft stops filing either figure in this form, the assumption is reviewed rather than invalidated."}],"keyJudgment":"This is the leading alternative to the thesis. Microsoft is spending on new capacity at a record rate, and roughly two thirds of that spending goes on chips and servers that are written off over several years, so the cost arrives quickly while the revenue builds over time. If AI does not pay for itself at this scale, the first signs would appear in costs: a falling gross margin on the Microsoft Cloud, free cash flow shrinking as spending climbs, and operating profit growing more slowly than revenue. Commitments made years ahead, including data centre leases not yet started, would make those costs slow to cut. Microsoft would then face a choice between slower profit growth and a slower buildout.","publicLabel":"The alternative","alternatives":[{"key":"CX1","statement":"Margins fall because Microsoft builds ahead of business it has already signed, and they recover as that business arrives as revenue.","favouredBy":["The cloud gross margin falls while revenue under contract and not yet recognized keeps rising.","Microsoft says new capacity is committed to customers before it is built."],"ruledOutBy":["The cloud gross margin keeps falling after the contracted business begins to arrive as revenue."]},{"key":"CX2","statement":"Spending slows because capacity becomes cheaper to build and run, while revenue from AI keeps growing.","favouredBy":["Microsoft reports a lower cost for each unit of AI work it delivers.","Growth in capital spending slows while Azure keeps growing quickly."],"ruledOutBy":["Capital spending and Azure growth slow together."]},{"key":"CX3","statement":"Spending moves into 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