Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has a straightforward rule for companies building powerful AI: Keep people in charge. “We should do what it takes to build stuff that serves humanity first and is in human control,” Nadella told the audience at the All-In Summit on Tuesday. “You’ve got to have choice. You have to have competition.
A year ago, OpenAI seemed to have an untouchable lead in the AI race. It was by far the dominant AI platform for consumers. Competitors like Meta were struggling (and spending millions of dollars on new hires) to catch up. Sam Altman had enough money and influence to hire famed Apple designer Jony Ive to
Satya Nadella quietly criticized AI labs like Anthropic for the way they train their models. In an X post on Sunday, Microsoft’s CEO said that model makers complaining about distillation are hypocritical. Distillation is the process of training a less powerful model based on the results of a stronger one. “While the great innovation that
