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LinkedIn merged product manager, designer, and engineering roles into full-stack builders
“So for example, I'll give you, at LinkedIn, we used to have product managers, we had designers, we had front-end engineers, and then we had back-end engineers and so on. So what we did is we sort of took those first four roles and combined them. In fact, incre…”
Nadella: Top global tech companies will emerge using US AI stack
“There will be tech companies maybe even top five tech companies that could emerge everywhere with even the American tech stack.”
Nadella: Software builders will use multiple AI models, not just one
“In that app server, one of the things that structurally now is pretty clear is anyone building any application or any company is going to use Not one model, but all the models, right?”
Nadella: Orchestrating role-prompted models beats any single frontier model
“What it proves is that by assigning roles, right? So investigator, data analyst, domain expert, just giving even prompted roles to models, And then orchestrating them gets better results than any one single frontier model.”
Nadella: Open-source AI models will reach frontier-class capabilities
“They're definitely going to be frontier models that are closed source. You know, they're going to be open source models that are going to be frontier class.”
Nadella: AI public sector efficiency could boost Global South GDP growth
“40%, 50% of the GDP of most Global South countries is public sector. So just imagine this tech making a difference in how the governments, ah, really parlay the taxpayer money into services for citizens, and there's, if there's efficiency gains, that's probabl…”
Nadella: Enterprise AI ROI initially comes from customer service, supply chain, HR
“Top-down is if I look at the ROI of applying AI in customer service or in supply chain, or in HR self-service, those are the easy projects where IT and CXOs can make calls, and that's where you're seeing the first drop of real AI adoption.”
Microsoft introduced Agent 365 to extend human identities to AI agents
“We introduced something called Agent three six five as a way to give identities. In fact, extending the identities we have for humans today and the endpoint protection we have for their compute devices to agents.”
Nadella: AI will steepen productivity curve for new college hires
“So in some sense, the productivity curve of a college hire is going to be much steeper than it ever before.”
Microsoft's Phi Silica AI model runs locally on Windows NPUs and GPUs
“Like today, there's a five silica model, which is completely resident using NPUs and of course using GPUs.”
Microsoft testing apprenticeship model pairing senior devs with college hires
“In fact, one of the things we're experimenting with is a different type of apprenticeship, right? Which is, you take somebody who's an IC senior dev, Have, like, a cohort of college hires working with them, because it's a new way of working.”