Writing for Yahoo! Finance, Leah Nylen and Shirin Ghaffary reported the contents of internal emails that are now a part of the discovery in U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google.
One email to Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella and co-founder Bill Gates in 2019 from Microsoft’s chief technology officer, Kevin Scott, indicated he was “very, very worried.”
As the article reports the 2019 email: “We are multiple years behind the competition in terms of machine learning scale,” Scott said in the email. Significant portions of the message, titled ‘Thoughts on OpenAI,’ remain redacted. Nadella endorsed Scott’s email, forwarding it to Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood and saying it explains “why I want us to do this.”
Scott turned out to be right about OpenAI.