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Microsoft winds down its rented Oracle AI capacity
Microsoft has stopped renewing a contract to rent AI computing from Oracle and has been switching the capacity off over recent months, Bloomberg reported. People familiar with the arrangement said the rented hardware used older-generation Nvidia chips and no longer met Microsoft's specifications, while Oracle said demand for its AI infrastructure, including earlier-generation GPUs, remains strong. The 2023 deal supported an AI-assisted version of Bing and its value was never disclosed.