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Comparing Google's announcement a couple days ago with this. Microsoft's announcements are massively more ambitious. Google announced a handful of LLM-based fe
by daydream 4y ago
Comparing Google's announcement a couple days ago with this. Microsoft's announcements are massively more ambitious.
Google announced a handful of LLM-based features. This is Microsoft adding LLM-based features to all of their core office software.
For big companies being able to ask questions and get answers informed by all your documents, emails, chats, etc is huge. For small companies the features in Excel, Teams, and perhaps Power automate will be big. Maybe the Word features too depending on how fundamental writing is to the core business.
Google's haphazard and unfocused product development is going to really hurt them. MS must have coordinated thousands of people to build this stuff. As for Google, well they are undeniably at or near the top when it comes to research, but they are not good at product and execution. I am not optimistic.
I am no lover of Microsoft. I use their products as little as possible and I still have plenty of gripes. But this could be the biggest step change since email, word processing, and spreadsheets became widely available in the later 80s/early 90s.
- swyx 4y ago> Google announced a handful of LLM-based features. This is Microsoft adding LLM-based features to all of their core office software. i think this is incorrect. take another look at this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DaJVZBXETE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DaJVZBXETE its clear they are infusing ai in all their workspace stuff. now whether or not they do it fast or do it well, that is a different story.
- daydream 4y agoAfter combing through the announcements again I mostly agree with you. Google and Microsoft are putting AI in very similar places. I still believe MS is going further. Business Chat will be a very big deal if it works well. Google didn't announce anything similar.