Alistair Barr

23 hours ago | businessinsider.com | Akin Oyedele |Alistair Barr |Henry Blodget

It's getting clearer who the winners will be in key parts of the generative AI race, according to Elad Gil, a top startup investor. "In coding, it seems like it's consolidated into 2 or 3 players," he said recently on my favorite AI podcast, "No Priors."He highlighted Cursor, Codium (now called Qodo), Cognition AI (the startup behind Devin), and Microsoft's GitHub Copilot.

23 hours ago | businessinsider.com | Akin Oyedele |Alistair Barr |Henry Blodget

Each week in Business Insider's Tech Memo newsletter, I try an AI tool. What do you think of this one? What should I do, or use, next week? Let me know. This week, I tested Granola, an AI notetaking assistant. I fired it up for an interview with Raj Sharma, a bigwig at consulting giant EY. Coincidentally, he said his wife uses Granola to transcribe her interactions with patients. Installing it on my MacBook was easy.

1 day ago | businessinsider.com | Alistair Barr |Ashley Stewart |Henry Blodget

An internal Microsoft organization chart shows the top execs Jay Parikh has assembled to help him lead the new CoreAI group. In January, CEO Satya Nadella put Parikh in charge of this unit, central to Microsoft's ambition to help developers build AI agents capable of working alongside human employees. The roster, recently viewed by Business Insider, includes executives who overlapped with Parikh at Meta, where he was previously head of engineering.

1 day ago | businessinsider.com | Alistair Barr |Ashley Stewart |Henry Blodget

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3 days ago | businessinsider.com | Alistair Barr |Ashley Stewart |Henry Blodget

The newest member of Microsoft's executive ranks is taking a page from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, according to an internal email viewed by Business Insider. Earlier this year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella put Jay Parikh in charge of a new unit called CoreAI, which helps developers build AI agents capable of working alongside human employees. Parikh has been sending weekly memos to his new team, detailing goals, early accomplishments, and advice to address what he sees as problems within the company.