Axios: Microsoft CEO takes on AI rivals

 🦾 Microsoft CEO takes on AI rivals
 
Satya Nadella speaks in Sydney, Australia, in April. Photo: George Chan/Getty Images

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is taking on OpenAI and Anthropic with a rival AI vision: cheaper models, more user control and political messaging that wins the public’s trust, The Wall Street Journal reports.

“You can’t say: Hey, all white-collar jobs are gone, and this could even be a weapon, and we will use all the power to build data centers,” Nadella told the Journal. The public, he predicted, won’t tolerate just a few models and companies “doing all of the learning for the world.

Why it matters: Nadella, who has long played the role of elder statesman in the AI race, didn’t directly name OpenAI or Anthropic. But his blistering critique “made clear that Microsoft is seeking to steer the AI race away from a future dictated and controlled by frontier model-builders.”
💡 The context: Nadella previewed his criticisms in an essay on X a week ago. “In my view,” he wrote, “our priority has to be building a frontier ecosystem, not just a frontier model, so value flows broadly across every company, every industry, and every country.”Journal gift link.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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