Employees reportedly concerned about Microsoft’s fixation with OpenAI

Products like Azure AI Bot Service are not available anymore

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Published onMarch 12, 2024

published onMarch 12, 2024

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Microsoft and OpenAI’s partnership is well known to the world. WhenSam Altmanwas fired as the CEO of OpenAI,Satya Nadellaplayed a major role in helpingAltman return to the position.

As it turns out, many inside the company reportedly believe that Microsoft’s strategy is more centred toward OpenAI than the in-house products and services. This has come to light in anexclusive story byBusiness Insider.

Several present and former employees at Microsoft who worked on the AI team led byEric Boydhave expressed concerns about this shift in strategy.

A former employee highlighted howAzure AI Bot Serviceisn’t available as a standalone service anymore. He claims that most such services, though available, have either been renamed or bundled with other products.

It’s also claimed that Microsoft and OpenAI employees, at times, work on the same project and have access to each other’s office space.

Microsoft continues to push leading native products

Microsoft’s AI push has picked up pace in recent months, and most of its new features are, in some way, backed by artificial intelligence. The Redmond-based tech giant’s native AI chatbot,Copilot, has now been built into more programs than ever.Copilot in WordandCopilot in Outlook, to name a few.

WithAI-based cyberattacks becoming a bigger threat than ever,Microsoft even released an AI-poweredCopilot for Security, giving analysts the much-needed upper hand to thwart attacks and identify existing vulnerabilities.

Based on these trends, we can say that Microsoft is still pushing its native tools, but this may be limited to a few, primarily to ones where Microsoft is a leading brand name, such as Copilot. For the rest, it might be employing the services of OpenAI when financially viable.

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