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Public-company evidence file · Updated July 14, 2026

Microsoft

Microsoft Research model authorship and Microsoft financial scale are documented in separate source lanes. Neither is converted into an AI-race score.

CIK
0000789019
Metric
Research and development expense
Unit
USD · fiscal year

3 dated observations

What the filing reports.

FY 2023$27.2B
Period
2022-07-01 to 2023-06-30
Filed
2025-07-30
Taxonomy
us-gaap:ResearchAndDevelopmentExpense
SEC 10-K ↗
FY 2024$29.5B
Period
2023-07-01 to 2024-06-30
Filed
2025-07-30
Taxonomy
us-gaap:ResearchAndDevelopmentExpense
SEC 10-K ↗
FY 2025$32.5B
Period
2024-07-01 to 2025-06-30
Filed
2025-07-30
Taxonomy
us-gaap:ResearchAndDevelopmentExpense
SEC 10-K ↗

Interpretation limit

Do not call this AI spending.

Microsoft reports company-wide R&D expense. The filing does not allocate this amount to Microsoft Research, a specific model, or its OpenAI partnership.

The series is not revenue, funding, valuation, capital expenditure, workforce, or market price unless its category explicitly says so. It is not comparable with a different category on another entity page.

See the multi-company view on the Compute Arms Race capex trend, where company-wide capital expenditure is tracked across all five public parents.