Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella Live Keynote from Build AI Day Thailand

It was a momentous occasion as His Excellency, Mister Srettha Thavisin, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand, and Mister Satya Nadella, chairman and CEO of Microsoft, took the stage at the Build AI Day Thailand event. The audience stood to welcome these esteemed leaders, eager to hear their insights on the future of technology and its impact on society.

Empowering Every Person and Organization

Satya Nadella began his keynote by posing a powerful question: "How do we empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more?" He emphasized that it all starts with one - one employee, one team, one partner, and their customers. By collaborating and expanding opportunities, we can earn trust, protect fundamental rights, and advance sustainability for our society, economy, and world.

"That's the impact each of us can have. That's our collective opportunity. Empowering 8 billion people." - Satya Nadella

Nadella highlighted that we are in a new era of AI, where we can build as fast as our imagination, unlock creativity, and innovate responsibly to tackle society's biggest challenges. By working together, we can ensure that these benefits reach every country, industry, and individual, ultimately empowering the entire world.

The Excitement of the AI Wave

Expressing his delight at being back in Bangkok, Thailand, Nadella thanked the Prime Minister for his presence and the honor of speaking at the event. As developers and technologists, Nadella noted the excitement that comes with the emergence of new technologies and paradigms, and the current AI wave is no exception.

Throughout his 32-year career at Microsoft, Nadella has witnessed four major paradigm shifts, from the early days of the PC era to the web, internet, cloud, and mobile. However, he believes that this fourth revolution, driven by AI, may be the biggest of them all.

The Scaling Laws Driving the AI Revolution

At the core of the AI wave are the scaling laws of neural networks, transformer models, and other emerging architectures. These scaling laws are driving the intelligence revolution, just as Moore's law drove the first revolution. With each order of magnitude increase in petaflops used to train large models, we gain access to more powerful capabilities, such as natural user interfaces (speech, text, and video), enhanced reasoning and planning, and expanded memory and context.

AI's Impact on Economic Growth

Nadella emphasized that the success of any technology is measured by its impact on the broader economy and society. The AI revolution has the potential to add as much as a trillion dollars to the region's economy, with Thailand alone experiencing double-digit growth of over 100 billion dollars driven by AI-enabled productivity gains.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and organization in Thailand to achieve more, focusing on harnessing technology to make a real difference in business outcomes, economic outcomes, and societal outcomes. Whether it's small businesses becoming more productive, large multinationals gaining a competitive edge, or startups being born, AI has the power to transform health outcomes and education outcomes across the Thai economy and society.

Building a Rich AI Platform

To support this mission, Microsoft is building a comprehensive AI platform stack, spanning infrastructure, data, tooling, and applications. The platform is designed to drive transformational outcomes, such as improving customer experiences, employee experiences, business process efficiency, and innovation curves in every organization.

Three Imperatives for Organizations

The Copilot Ecosystem

Microsoft is developing the Copilot ecosystem to bring personal assistance and productivity enhancements to consumers and commercial organizations alike. The goal is to celebrate what individuals can achieve with technology, enabling them to create magical experiences, make better decisions, and act with greater precision.

Real-world productivity advantages are already evident in everyday use cases, such as knowledge work, sales, customer service, supply chain operations, and coding. Low-code and no-code developers, as well as professional software developers, are leveraging tools like GitHub Copilot and Copilot Studio to become more productive.

Empowering Developers with GitHub

GitHub, the home for developers worldwide, has seen significant growth in Thailand, with a 24% year-over-year increase in software developers participating in various projects and repos. The launch of GitHub Copilot has been a game-changer, driving real productivity growth for software engineers.

The recently announced GitHub Copilot Workspaces takes this to the next level, enabling developers to generate plans, edit them, and execute changes across multiple files in a repo, automating the entire software development loop.

AI Infrastructure and Applications

Microsoft is committed to providing the best AI infrastructure and tools for developers to build their own AI applications. The announcement of a full Azure region coming to Thailand with Tass brings world-class AI infrastructure, including silicon from Nvidia, AMD, and Microsoft's own Maya chips, enabling developers to train and inference models with best-in-class performance and latency.

In addition to Azure OpenAI and access to frontier models, Microsoft is leading the small language model revolution, offering models like the recently launched 3 billion parameter model that delivers performance comparable to larger models while optimizing parameter count, latency, cost, and performance.

Trust, Safety, and Security

Nadella stressed the importance of trust, safety, and security in AI adoption. Microsoft's Secure Future initiative focuses on security by design, default, and operations, making it the number one engineering priority. These products and services are available to everyone to secure their digital estates, including endpoint and identity protection, application protection, and compliance.

AI safety is another critical area, with Microsoft taking a principled approach since 2016. This approach has been translated into engineering processes, compliance, and audit processes, which are now part of Azure AI as a set of services, tools, methodologies, and practices for organizations to build and deploy powerful AI responsibly.

Empowering Thailand's Human Capital

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