Microsoft in 2025: AI Superfactory, New OpenAI Deal, Anthropic Alliance and Cloud Growth Redefine the Company
Updated: November 28, 2025 Microsoft is reshaping itself around AI and cloud in 2025, with record financial results, a revamped OpenAI partnership, a multibillion‑dollar Anthropic alliance, an AI “superfactory,” and big moves in Xbox gaming and regulators’ courts. A pivotal year for Microsoft Microsoft has spent years talking about being an “AI-first” company. In 2025, that slogan finally looks literal. The company is posting record cloud and AI-driven financials, renegotiating its blockbuster OpenAI deal, striking a huge new alliance with Anthropic and Nvidia, building an AI “superfactory” spanning U.S. states, and pushing agentic AI from the data center all the