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Kevin Okemwa

Bill Gates would restart Microsoft as an AI-centric lab after 50 years — "Raising billions of dollars from a few sketch ideas"

Bill Gates during the "I Could Jump It" sketch on THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON.

If time travel were a reality in this era of AI, Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates would have gone back a few years to restart the software giant as an AI-centric firm. Microsoft is arguably one of the most successful companies ever, and it briefly became the world's most valuable company ahead of Apple and NVIDIA due to its cloud and, obviously, AI efforts.

Fifty years into its successful software development business, Gates seemingly shared his intrusive thoughts, suggesting that he would start Microsoft all over again as an AI firm to take on OpenAI and Google.

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