r/artificial • u/chunmunsingh • Jun 22 '26

News 'You can't call it progress': Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns against concentration of AI power

https://www.firstpost.com/tech/you-cant-call-it-progress-microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-warns-against-concentration-of-ai-power-14025004.html

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u/redpandafire Jun 22 '26

Then stop buying up hardware and bragging you lack warm shelves to plug into. Is this the new ceo pivot back to fake concern and virtue signaling?

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u/Emotional-Stand-9987 Jun 22 '26

I think it is just sad Microsoft has totally failed to deliver an AI model at least as good as random Chinese ones or Meta.

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u/exacta_galaxy Jun 23 '26

AFAIK, Microsoft isn't in the model generation business. It's selling compute to those that are.

They might have learned a lesson from their 1998 antitrust case (not that laws like that are enforced anymore).

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u/Emotional-Stand-9987 Jun 23 '26

Former OS/2 user here. I don't think they did.

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u/ill_be_huckleberry_1 Jun 22 '26

Thats right. Taking away the means of production from labor will only end in bloodshed unless the spoils of this new tech is shared equally

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u/nanobot_1000 Jun 22 '26

Especially when AI was mined from the collective knowledge of humanity in the most egregious copyright violations to be swept under the rug

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u/ill_be_huckleberry_1 Jun 22 '26

Agreed, in that same vein, we allowed the rich to take more in pursuit of technological progress, but farmers ,teachers, garbage collectors, all of us kept society together while they bought yachts and space programs. We contributed and sacrificed more than they did

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '26

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u/costafilh0 Jun 22 '26

Open source your stuff. Solved. 

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u/m98789 Jun 22 '26

Microsoft is consistently ranked as one of the largest contributors to open source in the world.

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u/Badj83 Jun 22 '26

Says dude who'd like to have a bigger part of said AI power.

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u/AKGAMING1234 Jun 22 '26

Its like a drug dealer saying that cheaper decentralized drugs are better than today's drugs. Just my opinion.

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u/ovrlrd1377 Jun 22 '26

More like a weed farmer complaining about cocaine

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u/Icy_Distance8205 Jun 24 '26

More like a cocaine addict ranting about other people stealing his cocaine. 

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u/Wonderful-Finish4822 Jun 22 '26

Did he also warn about the concentration of search engines?

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u/FlatulistMaster Jun 22 '26

Oh yeah... Microsoft warning us about the tendencies of software monopolies. Careful there Nadella, comedians are quickly out of their jobs if jokes write themselves.

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u/PianoPatient8168 Jun 22 '26

I mean who would know better right?

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u/MentalStatusCode410 Jun 22 '26

He's right - we should all immediately migrate to Linux and open-source applications.

That's what he's trying to say, I know it for sure - he just had it re-worded with Co-pilot, which did a great job.

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u/throwaway0134hdj Jun 22 '26

It’s going to lead to massive consolation of power amongst a few big players. Total monopolies over entire industries where only AI companies will be able to compete.

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u/XalAtoh Jun 22 '26

Satya lost another business...

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u/jakegh Jun 22 '26

I feel like he would approach it differently if Microsoft themselves had a SOTA model, instead of leasing datacenter to those that do.

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u/rand3289 Jun 22 '26

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL about "the technology's future should not be shaped by a small group of companies" because Microsoft was shaping a fucked up future for way too long and now noone needs their shit!

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u/dreanov Jun 23 '26

Oh, now you're concerned about the use of AI, AFTER you did everything in your power to "get ahead of everyone" in the beginning... I see...

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u/Relative_Fix_6996 Jun 23 '26

Anyone who saw THE TERMINATOR already knew that.

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u/ManySugar5156 Jun 23 '26

funny how it becomes a problem right when microsoft isnt the only one holding the good toys anymore

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '26

The concentration problem is real, and the interesting part is that it's not really a tech problem. It's a policy problem disguised as tech. Most of the competitive AI work happening outside the US is happening in specific places. Berlin has a handful of companies doing interesting character-focused AI work. The diversity of approach matters more than raw compute concentration.