Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is reportedly worried about an OpenAI deal with Apple
Nadella was reportedly concerned about the potential impact of a deal on Microsoft’s product ambitions, per the report.
Nadella was reportedly concerned about the potential impact of a deal on Microsoft’s product ambitions, per the report.
An internal email, titled “Thoughts on OpenAI,” between Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, CEO Satya Nadella, and co-founder Bill Gates reveals some of the high-level discussions around an investment opportunity in the months before Microsoft revealed the partnership.
He will launch a division of Microsoft that brings consumer-facing products including Microsoft’s Copilot, Bing, Edge, and GenAI under one team called Microsoft AI.
In a conference call discussing Microsoft’s latest earning reports, Nadella stated that since its release on Windows 11, and Windows 10, in October and December 2023, Windows Copilot has amassed more than 75 million users.
Every so often an article comes along that explains damn near everything. This New Yorker longread – detailing Microsoft’s involvement in AI, and its intersection with the recent chaos at OpenAI – is exactly one of those.
OpenAI’s competitors have no choice but to speed up development to stay in the race as the leader sheds the cautious governance structure and welcomes a new board of directors who stand for commercialization and deregulation.
What is clear is that Altman and Microsoft are in the driver seat of AI. Microsoft has the IP and will soon have the team to combine with its cash and infrastructure, while shedding coordination problems inherent in their partnership with OpenAI…
“if there is going to be a successful, let’s call it a “regime of control” over AI, then we will need some global cooperation like the IAEA. What we’ve done in the atomic sphere might be the moral equivalent in AI where China needs to be at the table.”
“It becomes the orchestrator of all your app experiences. So for example, I just go there and express my intent and it either navigates me to an application or it brings the application to the Copilot, so it helps me learn, query and create — and completely changes, I think, the user habits.”
A recent column in COSMOS Magazine explored the need for folks to come up to speed – quickly – with the capabilities and pitfalls of AI Chatbots:
At the end of May, Microsoft had its DEVELOP conference, which it uses to showcase new products for the hundreds of thousands of programmers who write applications and utilities for Microsoft’s immensely popular software packages (like Office) and ubiquitous Windows operating system. Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, took to the stage for the opening keynote, touting […]