191 | The craziest week in AI news history 🤯 Microsoft, Google, Anthropic and OpenAI major announcements, and more important AI news for the week ending on May 23rd, 2025

**Sam Altman** (0:00)
I think it is the coolest piece of technology that the world will have ever seen.

**Isar Meitis** (0:04)
Hello, and welcome to the craziest weekend news episode of the Leveraging AI podcast so far. This is Isar Meitis, your host, and the quote you just heard comes from no other than Sam Altman, and when he's saying something is the coolest piece of tech he's ever seen, well, we should be paying attention. And so I know I promised you last week we're gonna dive into a specific topic in this deep dive. However, this week had the most big impactful announcement in the history of AI news, at least in the time of this podcast, or maybe since the day of the launch of the first ChatGPT to the world. And to be fair, it's gonna be a lot more impactful and profound on our day-to-day lives and definitely on our business lives in the immediate and near future. So we have a lot to talk about in the deep dive. And then with the time left, we'll add some rapid fire items because there's a lot to talk about over there as well. The rest will be in our newsletter that you can sign up for in the link in the show notes. But as I mentioned, because there's a lot of exciting stuff to talk about, let's get started.
Before we dive in, I would like to apologize for my stuffy nose. I've been fighting some serious allergies in the last 48 hours, so I hope that doesn't bother you too much. I hope both you and me will get used to it in three sentences, then everything will be okay. There were two really big and important events this week. The first one was Microsoft Build, and the other was Google IO. Both companies are obviously 100% all in on AI, but there were two very different vibes and focuses in these two events. Microsoft focused a lot more on enterprise, and Google focused a lot more on personal use and small businesses, which makes sense because these are the audiences they mostly cater to. Let's start with Microsoft and what they announce in Microsoft Build. The list is very long, but I wanna start with the high level. The high level is very, very obvious. Microsoft is building an end-to-end enterprise AI strategy that will integrate everything in the enterprise, beginning to end from customer service to data research to management, leadership, research, code writing, deployments, application development, and maybe even the web itself around a unified AI strategy. I must admit that from that perspective, their presentation was significantly more impressive than Google's. Not taking anything away from what Google announced, I'll get to that in a minute, but from a cohesive clear strategy, addressing their exact target market, they did an incredible job. So what are the things that they announced? Well, first of all, they announced what they're calling the Open Agentic Web. They are planning to, as I mentioned, unify everything that we know both in our personal lives as well as businesses around agents. They started with the burning hot topic of writing code. So there was a lot about Copilot Studio and Copilot in VS Code and open sourcing Copilot in VS Code. Their new Copilot for code writing is supposed to be an end-to-end agent, or if to quote Satya Nadella, from a PEP programmer to a peer programmer. And the goal is that you can assign tasks and bugs to it, chat with it back and forth as if it is a team member of your development team, and it will be able to do these tasks long, short, and be a part of the overall entire development process versus just delivering some snippets. They also introduced or actually shared, because they introduced it before, notebooks, which does the same things that Notebook LM does but is connected to everything in your Microsoft 365 Suite and beyond, meaning you can drop in whatever data you want in there and create specific notebooks that also integrate everything else that they shared. They shared a bunch of agents that are already available in Microsoft Copilot, an agent, researcher agent that can search the web and enterprise data for any information that you want, an analyst agent, which can take raw data and create detailed report, including analysis, forecasting, and so on. Basically everything an analyst does, again, from external data and internal data as well. There is going to be an agent store where you can hire agents for multiple tasks, and if you are a developer of agents, you can then post them to the store either internally for your company to use or for anybody to use, and that will be a whole new business sector of companies and individuals developing agents. Agents will be members in teams, so whatever agent you assign a task, you can chat with it in teams as if it's a regular member of your company or on your team. They announce co-pilot tuning, meaning you can now fine-tune agents and the way they work around your company's data style, tone, policies, etc. And you can replace the models in the background of agents, so you're not tied to just OpenAI.