Microsoft is turning 50 this year, but it is keen to show that it can run with young AI companies. The company is celebrating on April 4 at its Redmond campus where, among other things, it will show off the future of its Copilot AI assistant.
The timing makes sense if the rumors that Microsoft is looking to build a portfolio of its own large language models unconnected to its deep partnership with OpenAI are true. Owning an AI layer that sits on top of everything Microsoft builds would be of interest to the company if not necessarily to every user.
