Microsoft Excel, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft Excel comes up
OpenAI’s Vision for the AI Super App — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI
- ▶ 21:55 Shawn Wang Oh, that's the Excel thing. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:51 Shawn Wang There's Excel, there's PowerPoint, there's Docs, you know, the grand trio of work. 2 times in the scene
The Agent Cloud: Databricks’ Bet on the Future of AI — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin
- ▶ 6:12 Matei Zaharia So instead of like sending emails around or Excel sheets or phone calls, why can't you share like a view of that table in real time with them?
⚡️Every product of the future will be a living system — Ronak Malde, Trajectory.ai
- ▶ 17:30 Ronak Malde The agent attempts to do some research and then write some red lines or create an Excel spreadsheet.
Satya Nadella on AI: @NoPriorsPodcast x Latent Space Crossover Special at Microsoft Build 2026
- ▶ 20:00 Satya Nadella It was all email operated on it, Teams operated on it, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint.
- ▶ 28:48 Satya Nadella Even for the Excel team, for example, building the RLE in which a reward can be learned is actually one of the hardest sort of infrastructure problems.
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- ▶ 54:09 Shawn Wang Like, cause you can also natively output Excel files now.
- ▶ 1:02:13 Felix Rieseberg And I still am very upset that I can run all of Windows in JavaScript and launch Microsoft Excel inside the virtualized JavaScript Windows on your machine and do things that pro
Claude Code for Finance + The Global Memory Shortage: Doug O'Laughlin, SemiAnalysis
- ▶ 17:07 Shawn Wang And can I, uh, is it Excel, uh, sheets primarily? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:46 Doug O'Laughlin Excel is a ginormous abstraction.
- ▶ 31:16 Doug O'Laughlin This is like Excel. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:06 Doug O'Laughlin My daily driver was like Bloomberg or Excel or something like that, but I have a personal belief. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:56 Doug O'Laughlin It's a, you know, Lotus and Excel came around, right? 2 times in the scene
Artificial Analysis: The Independent LLM Analysis House — with George Cameron and Micah Hill-Smith
- ▶ 7:18 Shawn Wang I think, I think everyone has some version of Excel sheet.
⚡ Inside GitHub’s AI Revolution: Jared Palmer Reveals Agent HQ & The Future of Coding Agents
- ▶ 27:17 Jared Palmer And just like some of his, he's got some Excel spreadsheets and, uh, for like accounting, like, like, uh, financial accounting or managerial accounting, I guess. 2 times in the scene
⚡️Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Anthropic's roadmap for Agents and Developers — Mike Krieger, Anthropic
- ▶ 5:00 Mike Krieger Once we added file creation capabilities to Claude, um, so it can, you know, create PowerPoints and create Excels, et cetera, is I have a very specific thing, which is research Nintendo, I don't know why I have Nintendo on my mind, I…
- ▶ 6:21 Mike Krieger So if you're going to make an Excel file, it's not just correct, which is obviously really important, but it also, you know, matches the style of, you know, that was requested.
⚡️No, Don't Do Palantir for AI - Brendan Falk, Hercules (AUDIO FIXED)
- ▶ 17:33 Brendan Falk It's in a Word document, and you'd click on the Word document, and there was an Excel spreadsheet embedded
AI is Eating Search
- ▶ 33:28 Robert McCloy How can I, like, use Excel to build my financial model?
⚡️The Future of Notebooks - with Akshay Agrawal of Marimo
- ▶ 8:43 Akshay Agrawal It's just based on variable declarations and references, kind of like Excel in some sense, right?
Quadratic: The AI Spreadsheet
- ▶ 6:28 David Kirkos Uh, we have similar formula set to Excel and Google Sheets. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:43 David Kirkos I think they often don't have time to mess around in Excel and they see AI as like, oh, AI is gonna, you know, help me do this really quickly.
Why Every Agent needs Open Source Cloud Sandboxes
- ▶ 13:21 Vasek Mlejnsky You want to create a, uh, Excel sheet.
Building Manus AI (first ever Manus Meetup)
- ▶ 20:55 unnamed speaker Actually, one year ago, we, we build our own browser use, given before browser use, and our browser can interact with other apps, like, you can just export a page into Excel, yeah, things like that.
[Lightning Pod] Evals: How to Improve AI Consistently — with Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar
- ▶ 20:34 Shreya Shankar It's yeah, like there's no like Excel like equivalent, you know, that everybody's going to find is the perfect way to look at their data. 2 times in the scene
The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
- ▶ 1:07:00 Bret Taylor I always use the metaphor where like a bunch of accountants and Microsoft Excel was just invented. 3 times in the scene
Agent Engineering with Pydantic + Graphs — with Samuel Colvin, CEO of Pydantic Logfire
- ▶ 56:35 Samuel Colvin It's basically like worse than Excel or similarly bad to Excel. 3 times in the scene
Building the Silicon Brain - Drew Houston of Dropbox
- ▶ 22:33 Drew Houston Stuff that used to be in, you know, Word docs or Excel files, like, all that has tilted towards the browser, and that tilt is going to continue.
- ▶ 46:34 Drew Houston And to some extent, this was already happening with computing, you know, Excel is an aversion of your silicon brain, or, you know, you could draw the line arbitrarily.
How AI is Eating Finance - with Mike Conover of Brightwave
- ▶ 45:43 unnamed speaker Um, so there's kind of the, the missing piece that maybe people are wondering about, uh, you do a financial services company and you didn't do anything in Excel. 5 times in the scene
The State of AI in production — with David Hsu of Retool
- ▶ 16:37 Shawn Wang Uh, or it's an Excel sheet somewhere, whatever.
Powering your Copilot for Data - with Artem Keydunov from Cube.dev
- ▶ 18:16 Artem Keydunov Not a spreadsheet, like, you know, like a hidden Excel files.