Rauch: Copilot gave Microsoft conviction in OpenAI after broader bets
Guillermo Rauch · #79: The More or Less Holiday Special Pt. 1 (AI Highlights) · More or Less Podcast · Dec 27, 2024 · at 1:34:34
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch recounts a conversation with former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman regarding Microsoft's early AI strategy with OpenAI.
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“I was interviewing Nat Freeman today for our internal Vercel podcast today, and he was talking about how much conviction Microsoft got into OpenAI because of the effectiveness of Copilot. Like when Satya saw Copilot, when they were doing the initial iterations, they had actually way more ambitious applications they wanted to create with AI. And the one that ended up being the killer app is Making people more productive at producing code.”
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