Microsoft is racing to build an AI ‘agent factory’

When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella ran into Meta's erstwhile engineering chief, Jay Parikh, astatine a league past summer, helium had the aboriginal of AI apical of mind. The brace person known each different for astir 15 years, but this gathering was different, and Nadella called Parikh soon aft bumping into him to excavation into what was truly connected his mind.

"We were chatting astir the aboriginal and chatting astir each the worldly helium needs to bash present and that the squad needs to bash astir AI," Parikh, present caput of Microsoft's CoreAI team, tells The Verge. "That's erstwhile helium said, 'Hey, wherefore don't you travel articulation and assistance maine alteration the institution astir each of this AI stuff?'"

Nadella regularly talks astir Microsoft being portion of a caller AI era, but helium present wants the institution to overhaul however it builds bundle to conscionable this caller epoch head-on. Parikh, who transformed Facebook engineering teams, present leads a translation that helium describes arsenic gathering an AI "agent factory" for Microsoft's customers.

"I described this cause mill thought to Bill [Gates], not knowing that helium and Paul [Allen] described Microsoft 50 years agone arsenic the bundle factory," Parikh says. "Just similar however Bill had this thought of Microsoft being a clump of softw …

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