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Microsoft invests $1.5B in G42
Microsoft made a $1.5 billion strategic investment in Abu Dhabi's G42, which runs its AI applications and services on Azure. Brad Smith joined G42's board.
- Value
- $1.5B1
- Capacity
- n/d
- Term
- n/d
- Accelerators
- n/d
What the value means
Microsoft's equity investment in G42; no Azure spend amount disclosed. Microsoft later counted it in $15.2 billion of UAE investment for 2023–2029.
The record
Verified 9 Nov 2026- Announced
- Buyer
- G42
- Seller / provider
- Microsoft
- ValueHeadline dollar value exactly as stated in the cited source.
- 1,500,000,000 USD
- Capacity
- Not disclosed
- Accelerators
- Not disclosed
- Chips
- Not named
- Term
- Not disclosed
- StatusClosed or funded
- completed
- Other parties
- None named
- Deal type
- equity-for-compute, cloud-capacity
Sources
2- Microsoft invests $1.5 billion in Abu Dhabi's G42 (Microsoft) read 2026-11-09
- Microsoft's $15.2 billion USD investment in the UAE (Microsoft On the Issues) read 2026-11-09
Cite this deal
AI Compute Deals, “Microsoft invests $1.5B in G42”, https://aicomputedeals.com/microsoft-g42-investment-2024-04/ (verified 2026-11-09).
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