US technology company Microsoft has created Microsoft Frontier Company, a new operating business backed by a $2.5 billion (approximately €2.1 billion) investment and 6,000 industry and engineering specialists, designed to help enterprises move from AI experimentation into production systems embedded across established business processes.

The launch, reported by Edtech Innovation Hub, positions the unit around measurable business outcomes, with specialists embedded directly with customers to combine AI engineering with industry knowledge, organisational change support and ongoing system improvement.

Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, said: "With our new Frontier Co., our ambition is to help every enterprise build its own AI capability, and to help create a frontier ecosystem where every organisation can turn its knowledge, workflows, and judgment into its own AI systems that continuously improve."

Rodrigo Kede Lima has been appointed president of Microsoft Frontier Company, bringing 30 years of industry experience including enterprise transformation roles across the Americas and Asia. The unit will cover the full process from identifying a business requirement and selecting models through to building systems, measuring results and adapting workflows over time.

Darren Hardman, CEO of Microsoft UK and Ireland, said: "We're investing $2.5bn in Microsoft Frontier Company which will comprise 6,000 industry and engineering experts ready to help our customers amplify their corporate intelligence, protect their proprietary data, and deliver a return on their AI investments."

Early customers include London Stock Exchange Group, where Microsoft teams have integrated AI into LSEG Workspace to enable finance professionals to query structured and unstructured financial data. Land O'Lakes, Unilever and Novo Nordisk are also named as organisations using the approach.

Frontier Company will support multiple model providers rather than locking customers into a single model family, with options spanning OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft AI models alongside open-source and industry-specific systems. Customer data and intellectual property will not be used to train models in ways that remove organisational control.

Global systems integration partners including Accenture, Capgemini, EY, KPMG and PwC will work alongside Frontier Company to extend delivery capacity across markets and industries worldwide.