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The AI race isn't only about who has the best chatbot anymore. It's about who can make AI actually work inside a business. And that's where Microsoft has a very different advantage. ChatGPT and Claude helped make generative AI mainstream, but for most people they still function as destinations. You open the app, ask it something, get an answer, then bring that answer back into whatever you were working on. Microsoft seems to be betting that the next phase of AI looks completely different. With the new Copilot, Microsoft is bringing Chat, Cowork, Code and Autopilot together while continuing to connect AI more deeply with Microsoft 365. The bigger picture seems to be making Copilot less of another chatbot and more of an AI layer across the workplace. And Microsoft already owns a huge part of that workplace. Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, OneDrive, Azure, Dynamics, Power Platform, Entra, Microsoft Graph, etc. That gives Microsoft something interesting that I don't think gets talked about enough in the "which AI is best?" debate. Their biggest advantage might not actually be having the best AI model. It might be having the infrastructure, business data, applications, identity, permissions and security that AI needs to actually function inside an organization. Microsoft can even bring different models into that ecosystem rather than needing Copilot to win every model benchmark itself. That's why Satya Nadella calling Copilot an "OS for work" is starting to make a lot more sense to me. We wrote more about the new Copilot and what Microsoft is building here: Microsoft's Copilot Super App: What It Means for Businesses I'm curious what everyone else thinks. Are we moving from the chatbot phase of AI into the "AI for work" phase? And does Microsoft have an advantage because it already owns so much of the enterprise workspace, or do you think ChatGPT/Claude will still win businesses over?   submitted by   /u/RyanTechInc [link]   [comments]

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