Microsoft Excel, every mention
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How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn
- ▶ 17:41 David Cahn And so just this idea, I think in an Excel spreadsheet or in a chart, it's easy to show exponential scaling, but then in the physical world, exponential scaling is very challenging.
Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake
- ▶ 6:51 Alex Kantrowitz So, you know, in a laptop you would use it for personal use cases, like the same laptop you would watch Netflix on, you could also use Excel and PowerPoint on. 3 times in the scene
The Pentagon's AI Plan + Behind the Anthropic Fight — With Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
- ▶ 6:27 Alex Kantrowitz Right, and, and it is interesting to see what's happened with this digitalization, whereas before, this is from Pirate Wires, um, they say, by the start of the conflict with Iran this year, targeting processes were connected with…
- ▶ 12:07 Alex Kantrowitz That made me feel somewhat uneasy when I looked at this Maven Smart System demo is like, you know, maybe we want the Excel spreadsheets and the Word docs and the PowerPoints when it comes to something as serious as making a decision to…
OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
- ▶ 42:04 Greg Brockman Like, there's so much just very mechanical skill associated with Excel spreadsheets, with presentations, and if the AI has the context, it has the raw intelligence now to be able to do these things at a great level.
AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore
- ▶ 12:44 Olivia Moore If you've used like Claude and Excel, it's already like quite, quite good. 2 times in the scene
AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
- ▶ 31:01 Ranjan Roy They basically just did what already clawed in Excel or anything like, 2 times in the scene
Software In Shambles, OpenAI vs. Anthropic Super Brawl, Amazon’s Struggles
- ▶ 17:53 Alex Kantrowitz It got away with it, and people were talking about, like, these duct tape ways to stitch together software programs, and if they could ever do that, it would be a very big market opportunity, and now that has potentially arrived just, uh,…
Who Wins if AI Models Commoditize? — With Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch
- ▶ 11:31 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, like for instance, maybe chatting with Microsoft Excel.
2025 In Review, 2026 Predictions: Meta, NVIDIA, Tesla, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft
- ▶ 32:05 Reed Albergotti Their whole, I mean, we just had a really smart story, I think by one, one of my colleagues about Excel and how they just recently raised their prices on Excel. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI’s Potential, Google’s Speedy Model, Copilot Hits Turbulence
- ▶ 14:21 Alex Kantrowitz Like you're not just going to upload all your numbers, uh, like you would to an Excel spreadsheet.
Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
- ▶ 10:27 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, when Chachaputi came out initially, I think it was Bendig Devins that suggested you might not want to put AI in Excel. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI’s 2026 Priority, Disney’s AI Play, Datacenter Buildout Trouble
- ▶ 16:16 Alex Kantrowitz And I think that they've been sprinkling some fairy dust on the, uh, on an Excel spreadsheet and hoping that gets them there.
Google Pushes OpenAI, Bezos Returns, AI’s No. 1 Hit
- ▶ 17:04 Alex Kantrowitz Their, their new model, which is going to feel like, you know, maybe a little bit warmer, like Gemini three is supposed to, and a tiny bit smarter when you chat with it and not very different in everyday use case, uh, from let's say a GPT…
Will AI Kill Software? — With Salesforce Co-Founder Parker Harris
- ▶ 8:19 Alex Kantrowitz Chatting with your Excel spreadsheet. 3 times in the scene
How Business Software Transforms In The Age Of AI — With Zeb Evans
- ▶ 5:30 Alex Kantrowitz Think about how basically it changes Excel completely. 4 times in the scene
Anthropic Chief Product Officer: Why AI Model Development Is Accelerating
- ▶ 12:02 Mike Krieger Um, and so, you know, we launched, uh, the ability for Claude to create Word and PowerPoint and Excel files that you can then download and bring into those apps.
- ▶ 18:08 Mike Krieger Um, an Excel user, for example, I think that's the way you unlock the maximal value, um, of some of these as well.
The ‘AI-First Company,’ Big Tech Mega Earnings, NVIDIA vs. Anthropic
- ▶ 22:27 Alex Kantrowitz I definitely had Word and Excel on my first resume.
Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace Shao
- ▶ 7:47 Grace Shao And like even mega legitimate companies would just use pirated like Word, Word and Excel, whatever.
Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
- ▶ 41:31 Saagar Enjeti I oscillate between being an alarmist and also just being somebody who's like, eh, is it really that different or is it just a better Excel?
AWS CEO Matt Garman on Amazon's Big AI Chips Bet, Working With OpenAI, and Nuclear Energy
- ▶ 23:13 Matt Garman You still have Excel, but you still know how to multiply.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Has Thoughts on AI Agents, Automation, and The Future of Your Job
- ▶ 25:51 Alex Kantrowitz And instead of being in Excel, you just put all your numbers in a chatbot and you talk to your chatbot instead of Excel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:09 Alex Kantrowitz They put it in Outlook, they put it in Excel, they put it in PowerPoint. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI Builds A Browser, Microsoft Copilot’s Struggles, Jaguar Rebrand
- ▶ 9:23 Alex Kantrowitz Um, and I think it's, there's an interesting historical point here to make, which is that Google was able to seize the leadership of desktop browsers from Microsoft because Microsoft actually had an incentive and an interest in making the…
- ▶ 35:24 Ranjan Roy So it's basically saying you're paying 30 bucks a month for Word, Excel, whatever, and whatever else, and now
The Next Gen AI Models: Reliable, Consistent, Trustworthy — With Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
- ▶ 16:48 Aidan Gomez My Excel spreadsheet, right?
Fear Buying AI & Automation Stocks — With Downtown Josh Brown
- ▶ 24:55 Alex Kantrowitz Um, but I do think if you show up for a job, some people are going to be interested in doing something meaningful and like copying data, one Excel sheet to another is not the thing that makes them happy.
Is it Flexport + Shopify vs. Amazon? — With Ryan Petersen
- ▶ 53:34 Ryan Petersen Um, but when you say, hey, extract this data from this website and put it into this data format, into this database, or parse this carrier contract, we get these container, uh, these contracts in Excel format with like 20,000 rows and tabs…