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DeepMind, Microsoft, and Meta are building or using physical science labs
“You see people like Google DeepMind, Microsoft, other places like Meta, either building their own lab or running experiments at someone else's lab to get that data back.”
Joseph Krause Jun 17, 2026 ▶ 22:14 🔬 The Limits of AI in Science - Why We Need Self-Driving Labs — Joseph Krause, Radical AI
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Nadella says LinkedIn merged design, PM, and engineering into full stack builders
“At LinkedIn, they did structurally change and, you know, basically built up a new discipline called full stack builder, right? So they went and said, hey, let's bring people from design and product management, front end engineering, all put them together but a…”
Satya Nadella Jun 3, 2026 ▶ 28:10 Satya Nadella on AI: @NoPriorsPodcast x Latent Space Crossover Special at Microsoft Build 2026
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Parakhin: Bing Sydney first launched in India using Megatron, not OpenAI
“The funny thing, I mean, the most interesting anecdote is that Sydney was first shipped in India for and it was not noticed for a long time. And first implementation of Sydney didn't even have open AI model under it. It was during Megatron. Microsoft and the N…”
Mikhail Parakhin Apr 22, 2026 ▶ 1:10:53 AI-Native Engineering: 100% adoption, 5x search throughput, unlimited tokens — Mikhail Parakhin
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Google, Microsoft, Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic joined AAIF as platinum members
“You have Google, Microsoft, Amazon Block, Bloomberg, Cloudflare, OpenAI, Anthropic. Just a platinum member, create a foundation.”
David Soria Parra Dec 28, 2025 ▶ 1:35:53 One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation
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Swyx: Microsoft and OpenAI account for 77% of CoreWeave revenue
“Which are together, 77% of the revenue of CoreWeave.”
Michael Swix (Swyx) Apr 11, 2025 ▶ 9:45 SF Compute: Commoditizing Compute
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O'Laughlin: Microsoft's cost of debt matches the US government
“Microsoft's cost of debt is the same as the United States government. It's like the cheapest you'll get anywhere.”
Doug O'Laughlin Feb 24, 2026 ▶ 1:33:05 Claude Code for Finance + The Global Memory Shortage: Doug O'Laughlin, SemiAnalysis
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Microsoft CoreAI unites Visual Studio, VS Code, GitHub, and Azure
“And so you think about the new core core AI organization, you've got Visual Studio Code, GitHub, and parts of Azure, all in one.”
Jared Palmer Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 16:40 ⚡ Inside GitHub’s AI Revolution: Jared Palmer Reveals Agent HQ & The Future of Coding Agents
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Microsoft and Other Research Labs Cite RWKV in Architecture Papers
“Ever since that initial paper came out, there was ResNet, there's I think there's two more, there's a few more additional papers coming out, one from Microsoft, one from other organizations that are literally exploring the whole idea, once again, of scalable n…”
Eugene Cheah Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 1:08:56 RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
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