Microsoft Copilot, the assistant powered by Artificial Intelligence ChatGPTcreated by OpenAI under the direction of Sam Altmanhas become a core piece for the future of the operating system Windows. During last year we all believed that this alliance would have been promoted by the current CEO Satya Nadellabut now everything indicates that in reality Bill Gates would have been one of the main people responsible for this agreement.
In fact, an explosive report has emerged that appears to reveal that the boy himself never gave up the power he possessed during his term on the board of directors. He would have officially left office but he never stopped making critical and crucial decisions for the company he co-founded.
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That wouldn’t surprise most, it’s something that happens a lot. In fact, we have seen the clearest and most recent case day after day with a subject that Bill Gates does not exactly admire: Elon Musk. The tycoon in theory is no longer the CEO of X (formerly Twitter) but since he “gave up” his position we have seen it make decisions again and again and make advertisements about the company that are no longer supposed to belong to you.
Bill Gates would be years old an absolute profile of a philanthropist with a lot of parallel projects in different areas. But apparently, in the midst of all that, he would never have stopped influencing the future of his company.
Microsoft’s alliance with OpenAI had a lot to do with Bill Gates
Despite having left his position on the board of directors of Microsoft in 2020 and officially dedicate themselves to their philanthropic work, Bill Gates, The co-founder of this giant software company, in reality, would never have completely separated from the company. In fact, according to a recent explosive report by Business InsiderGates would have been working discreetly on various strategic projects for Microsoft in recent years.
The article goes so far as to state that one of the areas where Bill Gates’ influence would have been strongest would be with the whole issue of the collaboration agreement between Microsoft and OpenAI, who, as we already pointed out, ended up integrating the same Artificial Intelligence of ChatGPT in the assistant we now know as Copilot.
The establishment of that partnership would not have existed as we know it without the direct intervention of the Microsoft co-founder.
However, we cannot help but remember how in 2021, a year after his departure from the company, the Wall Street Journal reported that Gates’ departure from Microsoft’s board of directors was due more to an internal investigation into an inappropriate relationship with a company employee in 2000.
While Gates and a company spokesperson denied that this investigation was the reason for his departure, the information raised doubts about his future at Microsoft. Now everything seems to indicate that the subject himself never stopped having a strong power of influence over the company.
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The cited report of Business Insider reveals that the co-founder of Microsoft He has been actively involved in company projects after his official departure, but everything has been prepared from anonymous statements from internal informants. Although the chronology of the narrative fits well and is very convincing.
In fact, a crucial point that exposed this relationship was in the year 2022, when Gates would have challenged OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to develop a large language model capable of passing the AP Bio Advanced Placement Biology Exam.
As we all know, Altman managed to meet the goal set thanks to GPT-4 and from there the marriage with the company and Copilot was consolidated.
It remains to be seen if any of those involved, including Gates himself, give any statement on the matter. But everything seems to indicate that the allegations are more than true.
