Microsoft’s latest gambit to snag much of the human talent from Inflection AI is causing waves this week. Redmond has previously invested in the corporate, but is now absorbing much of its staff right into a latest division it created for just that purpose.
The subtext is evident enough: Microsoft doesn’t wish to run into regulatory oversight in the shape of anti-trust motion. Such regulatory actions have been more common in recent times, scuppering mega-deals like Visa-Plaid and Adobe-Figma. No matter your perspective on such deal-killing, Microsoft seems to have found a way across the matter on this case. Thus far, no less than.
Elsewhere in Microsoft land there’s talk of a latest GPT model from OpenAI, and even some latest Surface and Windows news that has an AI lilt. Wherever you look, there’s Microsoft and AI, cutting up the rug. Speak about a far cry from the Windows Vista days!
