This week, Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO at Microsoft, posted a video on his LinkedIn account, reflecting on recent successes in bringing the firm's AI vision to enterprise clients - with a mention of Microsoft's recently updated Phi service and CoHere acquisition that optimize AI models for businesses.
Nadella said:
There is no doubt, 2023 was the year of AI. We are no longer just talking about AI innovation in the abstract. We are seeing real product making, deployment, and productivity gains from breakthroughs in silicon to the creation of small language models like Orca and Phi, two models as a service which is making it easier to bring CoHere, Llama, Mistral to more apps - to the latest and the best from Open AI and of course CoPilot.
The Microsoft CEO noted how the firm's current lineup of AI services and partnerships can drive optimization, accessibility, and sustainability in the workplace.
Nadella also said AI innovation will "only be useful if we build and use it responsibly, ensuring its benefits empower each of us in our careers in our communities, and in our countries while helping to address some of the world's most pressing challenges."
Nadella mentioned several services in his video. Alongside the well-noted OpenAI/CoPilot collaboration, Nadella mentioned accompanying Microsoft enterprise-grade AI services, including Orca, Phi, CoHere, Llama, and Mistral, with each service representing recent gains for Microsoft.
While Orca is a long-standing service, most other mentioned AI services are new or updated. In recent months, Microsoft recently added many of these AI Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) products to its Azure platform. Microsoft is working on each service to help optimize its AI offerings for the enterprise client base Nadella mentioned in his video, such as government, finance, healthcare, and education.
Microsoft Integrates Command by CoHere
Satya Nadella's mention of CoHere comes following Microsoft's November acquisition of CoHere's enterprise AI MaaS platform, Command, with the firm adding it to the Azure umbrella.
The merger followed initial announcements of the acquisition made by Microsoft at Ignite earlier this year. The move enables Microsoft to launch the Command service to an international audience with Azure Cloud support included.
Jaron Waldman, Cohere's Chief Product Officer, said at the time:
