“Major platform shifts are in the air" — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella outlines how Copilot is going to change everything about how you work

Satya Nadella says big changes are coming too AI, faster than you might think

News By Mike Moore published 19 November 2024

• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella opens Ignite 2024
• Unveils a host of new Copilot announcements and upgrades
• Reaffirms Microsoft mission to empower the world using AI

The CEO of Microsoft has highlighted how the company’s Copilot AI platform is set to transform how people at all levels can work effectively and productively, particularly when it comes to AI agents.

Speaking in his opening keynote at Microsoft Ignite, Satya Nadella declared “Copilot is the UI for AI, it's rapidly becoming an organising layer for work, and how work gets done…every employee will have a copilot that knows them, knows how they work.”

“Major platform shifts are in the air,” he added, “I live for these.”

Copilot AI boosts across the board

In a wide-ranging keynote, covering a huge range of new announcements and updates, Nadella introduces a number of Copilot-powered features for top Windows tools such as Microsoft Teams, Outlook, PowerPoint and more.

Copilot will be, “the end to end system for business transformation”, Nadella declared, also unveiling upgrades to Copilot Agent Studio, which will allow users to create a new agent “in seconds” and integrate it into Copilot.

“Sometimes we mysticize these agents as things that take a lot of effort to build,” Nadella said, highlighting how a range of customers had already built third-party agents, “but our vision is that it should be as simple as creating a word document.”

Looking to the future of AI, Nadella, quoting US philosophy professor, John Haugland, noted, “the trouble with artificial intelligence is that computers don't give a damn - but we do.”

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