Microsoft and EY will spend $1 billion on helping their customers adopt AI over the next five years. The billion will support assisting clients with pioneering AI projects and capability building, said EY’s global Microsoft alliance leader, Paul Clark. Clients will be able to access those resources based on their specific needs, he said. “We’re intentionally building the EY forward deployed engineer (FDE) capability through close collaboration and training with Microsoft, while maintaining integrated EY-Microsoft teams in the field,” he said in an email. “Clients will continue to experience this as one combined team, bringing together engineering depth and transformation expertise.”

Full report : Microsoft’s AI doesn’t (yet) deploy itself, so the company is assigning its “forward-deployed engineers” to help EY staff roll out agentic AI for clients.