Microsoft expands Azure AI with Databricks and Mistral

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Microsoft has expanded its partnerships with Databricks and French AI company Mistral, covering Azure usage, custom processors, European computing capacity, and AI model distribution.

Databricks said its expanded Microsoft partnership will continue into the 2030s. The data and AI software company will increase its use of Azure for its internal business operations and analytics, while also moving more workloads onto Microsoft-designed processors.

Databricks will use Azure Databricks to run its core business operations and analytics and to build its unified lakehouse.

“With Databricks Genie and Unity AI Gateway deeply integrated across Microsoft’s products, we’re helping enterprises unify their data and ground AI in business knowledge,” Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi said.

The agreement includes greater use of Azure Cobalt, Microsoft’s Arm-based server processors. Databricks plans to use the chips for data-intensive operations and agentic AI workloads.

Databricks currently uses Microsoft’s Cobalt 100 processors and plans to adopt Cobalt 200....

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