Satya Nadella
Chairman and chief executive of Microsoft as of 2026: chief executive from 2014, chairman from 2021. Joined the company in 1992 and ran its cloud business before that.
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For a leader creating anything new, the skill needed more than any other is a deep sense of empathy.
if you think about creating anything new, any new product, any new business, as a leader, the one skill that you need more than any other skill is that deep sense of empathy.
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AI is a tool and not something mystical: plenty of past technologies also took over things only humans had done.
But that has been the case with many technologies in the past. only humans did a lot of things and then we add tools that did them.
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AI is a tool and not something mystical: plenty of past technologies also took over things only humans had done.
But that has been the case with many technologies in the past. only humans did a lot of things and then we add tools that did them.
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI Said 12 Nov 2025
Economic growth from AI waits on change management, not on model capability: the work artifact and the workflow have to change first.
even if the tech is diffusing fast uh this time around for true economic growth to appear it has to sort of diffuse to a point where the work the work artifact and the workflow has to change and so that's kind of one place where I think uh the change management required for a corporation to truly change I think is something we shouldn't discount
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI Said 12 Nov 2025
What the industrial revolution took 70 to 150 years to deliver, AI may deliver in 20 to 25.
whatever what took 70 years maybe 150 years for the industrial revolution may happen in 20 years 25 years
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI Said 12 Nov 2025
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AI will do to software what the cloud did: expand the market massively rather than crush the margins of the incumbent.
So this AI thing will be that right. So if you take coding um what we built with GitHub and VS code in over whatever decades uh suddenly the coding assistant is that big in one year and so that I think is what's going to happen as well which is the market expands massively.
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI Said 12 Nov 2025
Coding is a software-factory category that may end up bigger than knowledge work itself.
this fundamentally this category of coding and AI is probably going to be one of the biggest categories right it is a software factory category in fact it may be bigger than knowledge work
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI Said 12 Nov 2025
Microsoft has no birthright in AI; its luck is only that the new category is far bigger than the ones it used to dominate.
there's no birthright here that we should have any confidence other than to say hey we should go innovate and knowing the the lucky break we have in some sense is that uh this category is going to be a lot bigger than anything we had high share in
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI Said 12 Nov 2025
A model company may face a winner's curse: it does all the hard innovation and is then one copy away from being commoditised.
so I can make the argument that oh my god uh if you're a model company you may be you may have a winner's curse you may have done all the hard work done unbelievable innovation except it's kind of like one copy uh away from that being commoditized
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI Said 12 Nov 2025
There will always be a fairly capable open-source model in the world, which puts a permanent floor under what anyone can charge for one.
structurally I think there will always be an open- source model uh that will be fairly capable in the world that you could then use as long as you have something that you can use that uh with which is data uh and a scaffolding
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI Said 12 Nov 2025
Applications will not be wrappers around a model; the model gets wrapped into the application.
we will build our own applications scaffolding which will be model forward right it won't be a wrapper on a model but the model will be wrapped into uh the application
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI Said 12 Nov 2025
Microsoft's end-user tools business will become an infrastructure business in support of agents doing the work.
In fact, I kind of look at it and say our business which today is an enduser tools business will become essentially an infrastructure business in support of agents doing work.
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI Said 12 Nov 2025
The per-user software business becomes a per-agent business, and it grows faster than the number of users.
which I think is going to just keep growing because guess what it's going to grow faster than the number of users. So in fact that's kind of one of the other questions people ask me is hey what happens to the per user business at least the early signs may be the way to think about the per user business is not just per user it's per agent
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI Said 12 Nov 2025
An agent will reach for purpose-built tools rather than a raw computer, because tools are more token-efficient.
So this AI tool that comes in also has not just a raw computer uh because it's going to be more token efficient to use tools to get stuff done.
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI Said 12 Nov 2025
Models will end up like databases — many of them, deployed for different uses — rather than one model used everywhere.
it's kind of like databases right it's always the thing it's like hey can one database be the one that just is used everywhere except it's not uh there are multiple types of databases that are getting deployed uh for different use cases.
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI Said 12 Nov 2025
Infrastructure optimised for a single model is one architectural breakthrough away from being worthless.
You can't build an infrastructure that's optimized for one model. If you do that what if you go fall behind? In fact, all the infrastructure you built will be a waste, right?
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI Said 12 Nov 2025
Being the host for one model company, with one massive customer, is not a business.
we didn't want to just be a host for one company uh and have just a massive book of business with one customer that that's not a business right
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI Said 12 Nov 2025
Building capacity at massive scale on a single hardware generation is the trap; pacing matters more than gigawatts.
Oh by the way the other thing is I didn't want to get stuck with massive scale of one generation.
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI Said 12 Nov 2025
The question to answer about AI infrastructure is not what you do in the next five years but what you do for the next fifty.
the thing that you have to think through is not what you do in the next 5 years but what do you do for the next 50
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI Said 12 Nov 2025
Most of the gain in tokens per dollar per watt comes from software, not from new hardware — 5x, 10x, sometimes 40x on one model family.
the improvement software improvements of really throughput in terms of tokens per dollar per watt that we're able to get uh you know quarter over quarter year over year is massive uh right so it's 5x 10x maybe 40x in some of these cases
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI Said 12 Nov 2025
The biggest competitor to any new AI accelerator is the previous generation of Nvidia.
the thing that is the biggest competitor for any new accelerator is kind of even the previous generation of Nvidia right I mean in a fleet what I'm going to look at is the overall TCO
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI Said 12 Nov 2025
America holds half the world's market capitalisation because the world trusts it, and losing that trust would be a bad day for the United States.
that 50% happens because quite frankly the trust the world has in the United States whether it's its capital markets or whether it's its technology and and its stewardship of what matters at any given time in terms of leading uh sector. So if that is broken uh then that's not a good day for the United States.
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI Said 12 Nov 2025
Trust in American technology, not model capability, may be the thing that wins the world.
you just made the point of why I think trust in American tech is probably the most important feature. It's not even the model capability. Maybe it is like can I trust you the company? Can I trust you? Your country and its institutions to be a long-term supplier may be the thing that wins the world.
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI Said 12 Nov 2025
What decides a country's fortunes is not owning the leading sector but using the leading technology to create its own comparative advantage.
ultimately I think what matters is the use of AI in their economy to create economic value right I mean that's the uh the diffusion theory which is ultimately it's not the leading sector but it's the ability to use the leading technology to create your own comparative advantage right so that I think will fundamentally be the core driver
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI Said 12 Nov 2025
For a leader creating anything new, the skill needed more than any other is a deep sense of empathy.
if you think about creating anything new, any new product, any new business, as a leader, the one skill that you need more than any other skill is that deep sense of empathy.
In Chicago Booth visit, Microsoft CEO discusses what he looks for in a leader Said 6 Nov 2018
Empathy is not just for personal life: it is core to product development and to creating any value.
I actually think that empathy is not something that you reserve just for your personal life, even though it helps a lot. Obviously you need it to exist as a human in the world. But it is also core to product development. It is core to creation of any value.
In Chicago Booth visit, Microsoft CEO discusses what he looks for in a leader Said 6 Nov 2018
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- Just wrapped our earnings call. It was a fast start to our fiscal year. Microsoft Cloud revenue surpassed $63B, with growth accelerating to 30% YoY. Lots of innovation as we build the new tech stack for the agentic wave. A few highlights: 28 Oct 2026
- We're redefining the SDLC for the agentic era. Lots of GitHub updates this morning at Universe: • GitHub Copilot Fusion delivers frontier-level quality, 40% faster and at up to 77% lower cost • Our unified Copilot harness is now in Foundry, a managed service for building long-running agents that reason, use tools, and get work done • Copilot Projects gives you an orchestration loop to build with multiple agents across repos And we’re expanding capacity and strengthening GitHub’s architecture to make the home of agentic development more resilient. 28 Oct 2026
- Important work from our team in @ScienceMagazine today, showing how our diagnostic orchestrator can reason through complex medical cases, achieving greater diagnostic accuracy while reducing testing costs. 22 Oct 2026
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- Keeping over a million elevators and escalators running smoothly is no small task. Today in Cologne, I heard about how TK Elevator is using our tech to help provide its service technicians access to decades of shared knowledge, streamlining the process, so they can spend less time searching for answers and more time keeping people moving. 22 Oct 2026
- Super to see Volkswagen Group putting Copilot to work across the company! 22 Oct 2026
- In my annual letter, I share how we’re building a frontier ecosystem to turn technological progress into real-world outcomes and economic opportunity for people, organizations, and communities everywhere. 21 Oct 2026 linkedin.com
- Today in the UK, I saw how the Yorkshire Ambulance Service is using Copilot to cut down on administrative work and make better use of its data, and ultimately provide a better experience for medical personnel and patients. It's an early example of what's possible as NHS England expands Copilot to as many as 500,000 clinicians and support staff across the country. 21 Oct 2026
- Great to meet with the @saintgobain team in Paris today and learn how they’re using Microsoft Discovery to help accelerate the development of new more-efficient construction materials. 20 Oct 2026
- Today in Paris, we announced new capabilities across Microsoft Sovereign Cloud, expanding choice and control for organizations running their most sensitive workloads across public and private cloud, and our growing partner ecosystem. 20 Oct 2026 blogs.microsoft.com
- I recently wrote about why we need to treat models as insider risks, with security controls sitting outside the model itself. Today, we're putting that principle into practice by expanding Project Perception with new capabilities to help continuously assess agent risk, adapt permissions, and contain threats. 19 Oct 2026 blogs.microsoft.com
- In @Nature this week, our new research shows how machine learning can improve weather forecasts two to six weeks out, a timeframe that's historically been very difficult to predict. It's exciting to see the potential of this work to help us better prepare for extreme weather, manage natural resources, and make more informed decisions in agriculture. There's a broader lesson here... the future may not just be about ever-more-capable models, but about building intelligent verification systems around them: systems that learn where models are systematically wrong, reason about cause and effect, a… 16 Oct 2026 microsoft.com
- Today we are announcing our biggest bet yet on our own silicon. Starting next calendar year, we will scale our Maia family to multi-gigawatt deployments, making it the primary inference system for our own product and services. And we’re introducing Maia 300, which delivers 40% more tokens per watt compared to leading GPU-based systems. We are already deploying Maia 200 across the US, Europe, and Australia, delivering up to 1.7x more tokens per watt across experiences in Teams and Copilot. Our goal is to build on the full-stack efficiency gains we’ve already seen, while continuing to bring the… 12 Oct 2026
- Introducing Microsoft-Decision-1, our new model for fast decision-making. It delivers top performance on structured decision tasks, outperforming both LLMs and other decision models in latency and quality. We’re already testing it across Microsoft for everything from incident response and quality control to scientific discovery. 9 Oct 2026
- Thank you, @POTUS, for this incredible honor today. I'm humbled to stand alongside so many giants of American innovation and looking forward for what we can continue to do together to advance technology and drive American prosperity. 8 Oct 2026
- Great to partner with NVIDIA as we kick off this next chapter for Windows. Thank you @JensenHuang and @sriramk for joining us today! 7 Oct 2026
- We’re supercharging Copilot on Windows with Hybrid Intelligence. With your permission, Copilot can tap into the context on your PC, take action for you, and use local models when it makes sense, giving you more capability while helping your tokens go further. 7 Oct 2026
- Today marks a new chapter for Windows, as we bring unmetered intelligence to every desk and every home, and make every PC a place where agents can work securely on your behalf. Some highlights of what we announced: • MAI-Code-1.1 Flash: 137B parameter coding model w/ 256K context window, which is now optimized to run on your PC! • GitHub Copilot now hands off work to local models like MAI-Code-1.1 Flash, helping projects cost a lot less without sacrificing quality. • With Hybrid Intelligence, Copilot can now take action directly on the PC and keep sensitive work on your device. • And with Cod… 7 Oct 2026
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