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GPT-5.1 and Kimi K2: What ‘Thinking AI’ really means

GPT-5.1 and Kimi K2: What ‘Thinking AI’ really means

The experts discuss OpenAI's GPT-5.1, focusing on its shift towards conversational style and user experience over raw benchmarks. They contrast this with the release of Moonshot AI's Kimi K2 Thinking, a powerful open-source model that challenges the dominance of proprietary systems. Finally, they analyze the profound security, organizational, and cultural risks of Microsoft's plan to introduce 'agentic users' as autonomous employees in the enterprise.

Satya Nadella – How Microsoft is preparing for AGI

Satya Nadella – How Microsoft is preparing for AGI

Satya Nadella discusses Microsoft's massive AI infrastructure build-out, the transition to AI-driven business models, and the company's multi-pronged strategy for navigating competition, in-house model development, and the geopolitical landscape of AGI.

Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE

Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE

Keith Rabois predicts a new American economic boom driven by AI, forecasting 4-6% GDP growth without inflation. He discusses the rise of sovereign AI, OpenAI's dominance as a multi-trillion dollar company, Google's existential threat, and the strategic challenges facing Microsoft, Meta, and Apple in the new AI paradigm.

Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a Billion-Dollar Business

Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a Billion-Dollar Business

In a conversation with a16z, Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi and co-founder Ben Horowitz share pivotal stories and lessons from building Databricks. They cover Ali's transition to CEO, the strategies behind scaling an intense yet sustainable culture, the art of high-stakes dealmaking with giants like Microsoft, and the mindset required to turn down lucrative acquisition offers to build a trillion-dollar company.

Quantized LLM Training at Scale with ZeRO++ // Guanhua Wang // AI in Production 2025

Quantized LLM Training at Scale with ZeRO++ // Guanhua Wang // AI in Production 2025

Guanhua Wang from Microsoft's DeepSpeed team explains ZeRO++, a system that tackles the communication bottleneck in large-scale LLM training. By quantizing weights and gradients, ZeRO++ reduces communication volume by 4x, leading to training speedups of over 2x, particularly in low-bandwidth and small-batch-size environments.

How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma

How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma

Asha Sharma, CVP of Product for Microsoft's AI Platform, shares insights from working with over 15,000 companies building AI. She discusses the shift from "product as artifact" to "product as organism," the rise of post-training as the new competitive moat, and how agents are transforming organizational structures from hierarchies ("org charts") into task-based networks ("work charts").