Gomez: Microsoft Copilot will not achieve complete enterprise workforce augmentation
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Aidan Gomez, co-founder and CEO of enterprise AI startup Cohere, argues why tool-agnostic AI platforms are necessary to integrate across multi-vendor software stacks.
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“I think Copilot is great, and it's like the right idea of augmenting a workforce with a, with an assistant but it's siloed, again, within an ecosystem, so it's, it plugs into Office and, you know, the Microsoft suite of products, but enterprises don't just use Microsoft, right? They're a, they use Microsoft for their email and docs and spreadsheets, and then they use Salesforce for their CRM, they have SAP for their ERP, they have You know, some HRM, they have internal software that they built for themselves. And if you really wanna Augment the workforce. You need to have a platform for developing these assistants, these agents, that's agnostic to a particular tool set and that prioritizes the tool sets rationally across what people actually use, what the market actually uses. So I don't think that that's going to be done by Copilot.”
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