Ep 791: Microsoft Build Recap: 4 New AI Features That Stood Out

**Everyday AI** (0:01)
This is the Everyday AI Show, the Everyday Podcast where we simplify AI and bring its power to your fingertips. Listen daily for practical advice to boost your career, business, and everyday life.

**Jordan Wilson** (0:17)
Microsoft just wrapped up its annual Build Developer Conference in San Francisco. So obviously, there's like 197 new pieces of AI hardware, software, infra, dev tools, and more. I'm not going to painstakingly read them all off to you on today's episode. You know I go long, as we'll just link to those in the newsletter anyways. But I was lucky enough to get to attend the conference in San Francisco, talking with Microsoft C-suite leaders, product managers, developers, and more. While the announcements were buzzy, I'm not personally walking away buzzing from any one certain update. And that may be because I'm personally a Mac user, so many of these AI advancements aren't going to touch my daily workflow. However, the totality of what Microsoft announced actually showed that it is beyond serious about competing at the highest level in the AI era, even though it may not win any single race. And the hundreds of new AI updates are obviously going to change how millions of enterprises work. That's why on today's show, we're going to highlight the four biggest take aways that I had and that you need to know from Build and how they'll shape the future of AI in the workplace. Alright, so here is the big picture. So even though this is a developer conference, there's plenty of new updates for non-technical business leaders as well. And Microsoft showed all of its cards. It's going all in on a gentic desktop, not just with its OpenClaw integration, but with new local models, new hardware and software. And I think, though, that Microsoft is still very far behind in some areas of AI, yet it's setting the tone in other AI eras. But I don't even necessarily think it matters which category they may win or may not win, because in the end, I think Microsoft is always just going to be a top two or three company in just about everything. And that seems to be their strategy. So on today's show, you're going to know the four biggest AI moves that Microsoft made at Build and my thoughts on them. I'm going to tell you why. I don't think it matters if Microsoft's new models that they announced. Yeah. Seven of them total, not all of them new, but some of them new. I'm going to tell you why I don't think it matters if they're successful or not. You're going to know why Microsoft's small hardware plays can help overcome their big model problems. Let's get into it. My name is Jordan Wilson. Welcome to Everyday AI. If you're new here, yeah, Everyday AI, you guessed it by the name. We do this every day. We bring you the latest and the greatest unbiased takes in this daily live stream podcast and free daily newsletter. I help you make sense of what's important, what's not. You use that information to grow your company and your career. So, starts here with the unscripted, unedited daily podcast, but to take it to the next level, make sure you go to our website at youreverydayai.com.
We're going to be recapping today's show and giving you all the other AI news that you need to know to get ahead. So, Microsoft Build, great conference, right? You know, I am lucky enough to get to go to a handful of conferences a year. I've done Microsoft's Ignite Conference. That's maybe more for general business leaders and then Build is for developers. But I will tell you this, even what was covered in this build is much different than what's been covered in years past, right? Some of the normal build tools, right? Some of the more developer centric tools that normally are grabbing all the headlines, barely got mentioned. And I think that's just indicative of where we're at in today's day and age, right? The tools are changing, the capabilities are shifting and even what it means to be a developer, that bar is being lowered. And I don't think that that's a bad thing necessarily.
And I think before we even talk about, you know, here's what's new, right? All those things.
I think we have to hit rewind because it's important to put this into context, right? Yes, the AI race is changing all the time. And I'm going to get a little bit into why I think Microsoft's strategy is actually really smart. But there was some reporting about Microsoft's own internal code red back in September. So that's essentially, according to reports, there was an internal town hall where Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that he was haunted at the prospect of Microsoft not surviving the AI era. Did he actually mean that? I don't know, right? Maybe that was just a, you know, a rallying call to get the troops working together on a more unified version, you know, we're going to talk about their, you know, super app, which they kind of talked about but kind of did it, right? But there was this narrative as recent as like eight or nine months ago that internally Microsoft felt that they were going to get squeezed out of the AI race.