Tom Warren

It’s clear OpenAI Sam Altman isn’t at Microsoft Build to announce a new model, but he’s happy to tease that the next big one is on the way. Microsoft built an even bigger supercomputer for this work, and now Altman hints that new modalities and overall intelligence will be key to OpenAI’s next model. “The most important thing and it sounds like the most boring thing I can say... the models are just going to get smarter, generally across the board,” says Altman.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has just stepped onstage at Microsoft Build. He’s having a conversation with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott about what’s next for OpenAI and Microsoft’s big supercomputer plans.

Sal Khan, CEO of Khan Academy, is up onstage at Microsoft Build to talk about the nonprofit’s use of AI in education. Microsoft is partnering with the Khan Academy for AI-powered tutoring tools that will be free for all US educators as of today.

“It’s 12x cheaper to make a call to GPT-4o than the original model,” says Microsoft CTO and EVP of AI Kevin Scott. “It’s also 6x faster in time to open response.” These speed increases and cost decreases are super important for OpenAI’s latest model, but things aren’t going to slow down. Things will get cheaper and more robust over time, says Scott.

“We’re riding an extraordinary platform wave,” says Microsoft CTO and EVP of AI Kevin Scott onstage at Build. He likens it to the PC evolution and Moore’s Law or even broadband internet. Microsoft has been contributing to this with the company’s Copilot stack, which has helped the company build AI products quickly. “We are nowhere near... how powerful we can make AI models,” says Scott.

That’s what Microsoft CTO and EVP of AI Kevin Scott said last year at Build, just as the company was unveiling its AI tools. “I want to thank you all for the great shit that you’ve made over the past year,” says Scott, as he steps onstage at Build 2024.

We’ve all made a typo, but I do love them during huge keynotes. Thankfully for Microsoft, it looks like even if you make spelling mistakes when using the new AI-powered Recall feature, it’ll still find that orange couch for you 😉

Microsoft’s Windows chief, Pavan Davuluri, is discussing the company’s new push to get developers to build AI apps on Windows. He argues Windows is the most open platform for AI, just hours after announcing a new Windows Copilot Runtime that sets the stage for the next decade of Windows app development.

Pavan Davuluri had a busy day announcing new Arm-based Surface devices yesterday and a big push to bring more AI-powered experiences and apps to Windows. The Windows and Surface chief is now onstage at Microsoft Build to discuss Microsoft’s Copilot Plus PCs and Windows AI.