Microsoft CEO Nadella on AI LLM race: ‘We’re waiting for the race to start’

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Microsoft’s forward-thinking bets and aggressive investments in AI have helped the software giant become the world’s most valuable company. But Satya Nadella, the normally reserved chief executive, couldn’t resist taking shots at other industries with his gloves on.

“We have the best model today…even if there’s a lot of fuss, a year from now GPT4 will be better,” Nadella said at a company event in Mumbai on Wednesday. “We’re waiting for the competition to start. I’m sure it will arrive, but it’s not really [is] I mean we have the best LLM. ”

Nadella’s rare reality check came when he pitched Microsoft’s increasingly powerful AI product lineup to leaders of India’s largest companies. In his 35-minute keynote address, Nadella implored companies to start thinking about how to deploy AI to increase productivity and improve products, while also urging them not to fall behind.

Nadella, who was born in India, said the South Asian country is already the second-largest talent base for AI developers on GitHub. Puneet Chandhok, who left his role as head of AWS India last year to join Microsoft to lead the company’s India operations, added: “India is no longer just great. We are also reliable. India has started dreaming big and we are chasing this dream as if our lives depended on it.”

More to come.