Microsoft's commitment to AI is not news.
Copilot has been everywhere for... a while now.
But at this week's Build developer conference, the company made clear that it wants — and needs — to be a bigger player in the space.
The Verge's Tom Warren joins David to talk about the new Scout AI assistant, the Solara operating system concept, and whether Microsoft can hang with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
Also: how's the new era of Xbox going?
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0:00 Intro
0:25 90 Seconds on The Verge (news roundup)
2:34 Tom Warren joins — Microsoft Build vibes
3:27 Microsoft's big-picture AI ambitions
4:44 Can Microsoft be a top-4 AI model maker?
17:29 Xbox & the Asha Sharma era
18:05 Early days of the new Xbox leadership
23:34 One more thing: Nvidia RTX Spark hardware
25:51 Outro
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