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Hoffman: GPT-4 already diagnoses better than majority of human GPs
“And for example, a researcher at Microsoft, again, Peter Lee, has written an excellent book about showing how GPT-IV can already do medical diagnoses better than, you know, the majority of human GPs.”
Hoffman: Every professional activity will have an AI copilot within five years
“But one of the things that I believe with some vigor is that anything that we count as a professional activity, Today, or yesterday, will, within three to five years, have an AI, you know, use the Microsoft language, copilot.”
Hoffman: Winning in AI requires more than training large models
“People say, well, it's all about the size of the model you're training. So it'll be open AI, Google, Microsoft, you know, and that's it. And you're like, well, no, actually, in fact, there's going to be a lot more than just the size of the model you're trainin…”
Hoffman: AI will benefit both tech giants and startups, not disrupt incumbents
“Like it isn't going to be the David and Goliath where David invents his new thing, AI, and it kind of resets the apple carts of the Goliaths that are appropriately bought into AI, which, you know, is intensely Microsoft and Google and, you know, some Amazon an…”
Nadella: Stack ranking deprives managers of judgment and punishes high-performing teams
“The principal issue of any system like StackRank has is it doesn't leave room for judgment, which is who said that a team cannot have all about average performers? We all know that performance is in some sense relative. The world measures us that way. But at t…”
Nadella: No country will allow two or three companies to monopolize AI
“In fact, I say, if it was, oh, wow, the two companies in the world or three companies in the world have AI, that's not a world that any of us want to live in. In fact, that's a world that won't exist. No country will allow that. It is a silly way to even conce…”
Nadella: AI copilots will be developed for pretty much every field
“To your point, it'll change everything, like we're working with Autodesk on Maya so you can imagine architecture, industrial design pretty much any field you can have a co-pilot for everything.”
Nadella: Succeeding Gates and Ballmer required a full reset of Microsoft's culture
“I felt like, oh, I just can't be like, okay, here's the third guy who just shows up and does what Bill and Steve did. It needs a full reset. And I felt that the reset meant I needed to make both that sense of purpose, mission, and culture first class and my ow…”
Nadella: Successful acquisitions require evaluating how Microsoft itself will fundamentally change
“So I've looked at M&A as, at the meta level, it needs to do two things. One is it needs to be something that we can clearly quote, unquote, say it fits our mission. It fits our identity. Oh, we can be a better owner, which is sort of a very narrow way to talk …”
Nadella: Empathy is the core source of all innovation and design thinking
“This notion of empathy is at the core of learning. We are in the business of meeting unmet, unarticulated needs of customers, right? That's where is the source of all innovation, all design thinking.”
Solivan: Small VC funds struggle to compete in capital-intensive AI investments
“I think to some extent, to some of the big AI companies, you see the same thing, and so you see the big players like Andreessen, or you see Microsoft investing in OpenAI, like, you need really, really deep pockets to be successful. I think it's harder for the …”
Hoffman: Microsoft withheld VALL-E public release to prevent misuse
“So we did actually a Microsoft technology called Vali that was the text to speech part, which they've been very careful not to release because they don't want it to be misused.”
Ryan: PwC committed $1B to AI client solutions and workforce upskilling
“And with their relationship with OpenAI, we said this is the time for us to really leverage our Microsoft relationship and the great partnership with them, and we committed to put a billion dollars behind that, and that billion dollars really goes to a couple …”
Manus AI partnered with Microsoft to deploy uncommercialized Research technology
“And that's part of what led us into partnering with Microsoft because both Sid and I from two different angles had some understanding of where Microsoft was, had been working on some pretty unique technology that That hadn't really been, and hasn't really been…”
Hoffman: AI tools for confidential enterprise data are fast coming
“And by the way, there's the tools for confidential data, you know, are fast coming. Microsoft, you know, a bunch of folks kind of working on, okay, how do we get this there? Because obviously a lot of important work works that way.”
Hoffman: Developers accept over 50% of Microsoft Copilot code suggestions
“In the Microsoft co-pilot product, developers who are using it for the suggestion of code that they're writing are accepting over 50% of the code suggestions.”
AbleGamers collaborated secretly with Xbox for over three years
“So able gamers got to work in secrecy with Xbox for over three and a half years.”
Spataro: Demonstrating Copilot live in meetings drove Microsoft's internal AI adoption
“We would use them in meetings. We'd send meeting summaries that were created by the copilot. We'd, in the middle of a meeting, use it to kind of analyze what was happening. And I'll tell you what, that drove adoption, diffusion, and curiosity more than anythin…”