The document was an email exchange between Redmond’s top executives.
He addressed it to CEO Satya Nadella and company co-founder Bill Gates.
“That [his dismissal] was a mistake,” Scott said.
What he found got him “very, very worried.”
He called the search giant’s autocomplete feature in Gmail “scarily good.”
Bing’s vision and speech research teams were too small and underfunded to compete with Google.
“And also why we will then ensure our infra folks execute.”
Only a few weeks later, MicrosoftinfusedOpenAI with its first billion dollars and has sinceinvestedbillions more.
Their partnershipraisedred flags that Redmond might be at the helm of OpenAI without calling it an acquisition.
Ironically, Microsoft’s now-outed partnership with OpenAI caused Google to panic.
The chaos ultimately ruined the Bard project.
Google finally settled down after combining DeepMind’s Bard and Duet AI research teams tocreateGemini last year.
