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Microsoft Developer (Build) · Jun 11, 2026 · Product Launches

Microsoft announced an Azure and Anyscale partnership centered on the Ray framework.

“today we also announced with a partnership between Azure and any scale and any scale is around ray”

In a Build fireside chat, Mark Russinovich and Ion Stoica discussed AI infrastructure and announced a new partnership between Azure and Anyscale built around the Ray framework. The transcript is mostly introductory background, so the concrete signal is the Azure-Anyscale partnership, which matters for scaling AI and distributed compute workloads but is lightly detailed here.

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