By Ellichipuram Umesh
Publication Date: 2026-05-22 11:32:00
EY and Microsoft have expanded their partnership, pledging more than $1bn over five years to help organisations scale AI and achieve enterprise-wide results.
The programme will see Microsoft’s Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE) and EY’s industry teams working together. It will use Microsoft’s FDE AI-native Hypervelocity Engineering model to accelerate AI implementation within clients’ change and delivery structures.
In a statement, EY said that the move is an “important milestone” in the long-standing EY-Microsoft alliance across tax, assurance, consulting and EY-Parthenon.
The companies say the initiative is aimed at helping clients become “frontier firms” through large-scale AI adoption, workforce upskilling and ongoing optimisation of agentic AI transformation.
EY and Microsoft will deploy integrated, industry-aligned teams of engineers and business consultants to co-develop secure, sector-specific AI solutions.
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