Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella proclaimed a “new paradigm” on Tuesday in a keynote at the company’s Build conference in San Francisco. He was talking about the advent of agentic AI, but for anyone who has followed Nadella’s company closely in recent years, he could have just as easily been talking about Microsoft.
After taking an early lead in the AI race by forging a close alliance with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI beginning in 2019, Microsoft, and OpenAI, are both now playing catch-up in a heated field of rivals that include Google, Anthropic, Meta, and even SpaceX.
