Why Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Feels Rival Google Should Have Won The AI Race

At a time when chatGPT maker OpenAI and NVIDIA seem to be leading the AI race, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has made a rather surprising statement. Nadella has mentioned that Google ought to have won the AI race by default, but the collaboration between Microsoft and Open AI has boosted the level of competition.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Feels Google Should Have Won AI Race

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Speaking during the podcast "In Good Company," which is hosted by Nicolai Tangen, the CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management in Norway, Nadella acknowledged Google as a major force in artificial intelligence.

¡°Google's a very competent company and obviously they have both the talent and the compute. They're the vertically integrated player in this. They have everything from data to silicon to models to products and distribution,¡± Microsoft CEO Nadella said, adding that ¡°We will have significant amount of competition, and if anything Microsoft's partnership with Open AI is bringing more competition. Google should have been the default winner. If we partner well and we innovate well, we can bring some competition to them¡±.

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Why Microsoft Partnered With Sam Altman's OpenAI

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Nadella emphasized that Microsoft had been experimenting with AI for a very long time, noting that when Microsoft Research was first established in 1995, it worked on some speech-related projects. We've been working with AI in all of its forms for a very long time because, I believe, we hired a number of people from CMU, as per Business Today report.

He continued by saying that Microsoft chose to collaborate with Sam Altman's Open AI since they were taking a different tack in the industry.

"I'm always searching for collaborators with whom we can create new things, and Sam and his team fit the bill. It was very much a shot in the dark at the time. It's not as though this is a given. The problem with technology is that, long before it becomes common knowledge, you have to throw yourself into it and hope it works.

"We supported it long before it became common knowledge, and now look at us. However, he noted that there would be fierce competition, specifically mentioning Google.

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Nadella Shares Microsoft's Future Plans About AI

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Microsoft CEO Nadella also shared some information about Microsoft's future plans for its AI infrastructure.

"I consider this in the context of the entire stack. Above all, I want us to have the best AI infrastructure possible. This implies that Azure should have excellent infrastructure, regardless of whether it is being used for inference or training. We'll collaborate with AMD and Nvidia, produce our own silicon, and design our own system architecture."

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