Aptos Labs has reached a strategic cooperation with Microsoft, sparking new sparks between AI and Blockchain.

Recently, Aptos Labs announced a multi-year strategic partnership with tech giant Microsoft. This collaboration aims to create new opportunities for Web3 exploration and development while providing more resources for innovators.

This collaboration is based on the continuous efforts of both parties over the past five years. Aptos has been committed to realizing a decentralized, user-centric internet vision. Through deep cooperation with Microsoft, Aptos Labs further emphasizes a developer-first design philosophy, providing developers with secure and reliable infrastructure so they can focus on user experience and consumer-oriented innovations.

The collaboration includes the deployment of new products that integrate AI and Blockchain technologies using Microsoft's infrastructure. One significant achievement is the launch of an AI chatbot named Aptos Assistant. This chatbot will answer users' questions about the Aptos ecosystem and provide resource support for developers creating smart contracts and decentralized applications. This functionality is supported by Microsoft's cloud computing services.

In addition, Aptos has integrated its native programming language Move into an AI programming tool on a certain code hosting platform. This integration will provide support for developers in areas such as "contract development, unit testing, formatting, and proof program specifications."

The CEO of Aptos Labs stated: "The reason why AI and blockchain technology can quickly integrate is that they are both epoch-making technological breakthroughs that have had a profound impact on the evolution of the internet and the shaping of social forms."

Rashmi Misra, General Manager of AI and Emerging Technologies at Microsoft, also stated: "By combining the technology of Aptos Labs with Microsoft's AI service capabilities, our goal is to popularize the use of Blockchain, enabling users to seamlessly access Web3 while allowing innovators to leverage AI to develop exciting decentralized applications."

Both parties also reached a consensus to jointly explore blockchain-based financial service products, including asset tokenization, payments, and central bank digital currencies, to expand the application scenarios of Blockchain. To enhance network security, Aptos will run verification nodes on the Microsoft cloud platform.

As one of the blockchains with the lowest latency and highest throughput in the current market, Aptos's transaction completion time (TTF) is less than one second, which is a milestone achievement in the industry. In July of this year, the weekly transaction volume for Aptos users surpassed 4.9 million and has shown a continuous upward trend. Since its autonomous launch, with strong support from the community, Aptos has been upgrading its blockchain almost every month, continuously setting new industry standards while providing comprehensive support for developers around the world.