Silicon Valley types are showering the Microsoft CEO with praise for his remarks in November that Microsoft is “below them, above them, around them” in reference to OpenAI.
Bill Gurley, a venture capitalist at Benchmark, said on X: “This is wild.”
Zak Kukoff, a former General Catalyst partner, also weighed in: “I have to give it to Satya. This is such a baller quote.”
Meanwhile, Perplexity AI’s CEO Aravind Srinivas called the quip a “new war slogan.”
Nadella’s comments came after the OpenAI board fired its CEO, Sam Altman, in November in a shock move.
The ousting was said to make Nadella realize Microsoft couldn’t rely solely on OpenAI, or be seen to be overly dependent on the ChatGPT maker.
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