Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has outlined a sweeping vision for the future of artificial intelligence, arguing that true AI platforms must empower users far more than they enrich the companies that build them. In a detailed post on X (formerly Twitter), Nadella drew from a well-known principle articulated decades ago by Bill Gates: “A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it exceeds the value of the company that creates it.” Advertisement

Nadella said that benchmark must guide the next era of AI development. For him, the technology will only achieve its full potential when businesses — from startups to global enterprises — can build their own capabilities without surrendering their core value to a small group of dominant tech players.

His post sparked instant conver

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