After a year in which AI-generated “slop” became shorthand for everything wrong with the technology, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says it is time to change the conversation. In a reflective year-end post, he argues that the industry must stop fixating on spectacle and focus instead on making AI genuinely useful, credible and socially acceptable.
Satya Nadella has told Microsoft’s top executives to fully commit to the company’s AI transformation or leave, as he pushes an urgent, high-intensity reset to avoid long-term irrelevance.
According to Nadella, there will be a direct correlation between the performance of AI models and how good is the data being used to feed it
Microsoft and OpenAI have been aggressively securing GPUs to meet demand, but their power infrastructure has not kept pace.
Satya Nadella told employees he is “haunted” by the risk of Microsoft losing relevance in the AI era, citing DEC as a cautionary tale.
“This isn’t just a game — it’s Test Cricket in all its timeless glory,” Nadella wrote, praising both India and England for delivering a spectacle of drama, grit, and greatness.
In a memo to employees, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella acknowledged the emotional toll of the decision, calling it one of the most difficult aspects of leadership.
Turning to consumer products, Nadella revealed that Microsoft’s ad revenue has crossed $20 billion in the past year—a major milestone he joked could “almost get overlooked” at Microsoft.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that the money Elon Musk referred to is for building useful things and not 'hyping' AI.
The meeting with Prime Minister Modi followed Satya Nadella's recent visit to Hyderabad, where he met Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's compensation package rose significantly, even though he requested for a salary cut
“We're entering this new era where computers not only understand us but can actually anticipate what we want and our intent is,” said Nadella
The company reassured staff that it would be fine without him, but the Silicon Valley superstar, who once ran the best-known startup incubator YCombinator, or YC, leaves the company with a big hole to fill in its fundraising efforts: maintaining the software costs some very real money.
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At Microsoft, "We are moving from the auto-pilot era to the co-pilot era of AI," said Nadella.
In a note to employees, Chief Executive Satya Nadella said the layoffs, affecting less than 5% of the workforce, would conclude by the end of March, with notifications beginning from today.
Microsoft will launch Mesh for Teams in the first half of 2022, bringing in the mixed reality capabilities into the videoconferencing platform. Teams, which has 250 million monthly active users, is now being positioned as the gateway to Metaverse.
Satya Nadella's statement came a day after Microsoft told its United States employees that it has delayed their return to offices indefinitely.
The Redmond-headquartered technology behemoth has diversified beyond boxy hardware to provide a new array of services
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Wednesday launched Skype Lite, a made-in-India avatar of its popular video calling app Skype, which comes loaded with features meant for low-end smartphones. The app, which has been developed at the tech giant"s Hyderabad R&D centre, consumes low data and will allow Aadhaar verification in the time to come.
'Hit Refresh' follows three storylines: Nadella's personal journey of transformation, the change that is taking place today inside his storied technology company, and one that is coming in all of our lives as intelligent machines become more ambient and more ubiquitous throughout society, publishers Harper Business said.
Invoking the famous Star Wars series, top industrialist Anand Mahindra today said technology is like the Force and everything depends on how we use it, as business leaders from across the world began debating here the challenges and benefits from the Fourth Industrial Revolution.