TBPN Diet TBPN: October 28, 2025
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Oct 29, 2025 
Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, shares insights on his company's groundbreaking partnership with OpenAI, sparking an era of AI-driven innovation. He delves into the importance of cultural support for tech ecosystems and discusses how Azure embraces diverse AI models. Nadella emphasizes long-term ROI in AI investments while predicting a growth in tech's economic share. He also highlights the evolution of gaming in the face of competition from short-form videos, all wrapped up with some lighthearted banter!
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Early OpenAI Partnership Origin
- Satya Nadella recounts meeting Sam Altman and Azure being OpenAI's first cloud provider in 2016 and 2019.
- He admits Microsoft invested with high risk tolerance and didn't foresee the full scale of the outcome.
Fix Jagged Problems First
- Nadella frames progress as removing 'jagged problems' and building robustness across systems before claiming general intelligence.
- He argues trustworthy multi-agent, multi-model systems are the practical path toward broader intelligence.
Treat Agents Like Compiler Tools
- Use agents like compilers to generate higher-quality coding artifacts via tools like GitHub Mission Control and Agent HQ.
- Aim for rigorous benchmarks and evaluations to reach reliable trust levels (two to four nines).