‘It's our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more’: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella outlines what businesses need to conquer the AI frontier ecosystem
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When a hyperscaler CEO frames AI as an ecosystem play, read it as a push to standardize on their stack — identity, data, models, and tooling — end to end. As you adopt these offerings, be explicit about where you’re comfortable with lock-in and where you need portable abstractions or multi-vendor options.
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