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Instant Reaction Earnings Roundup: Microsoft, Meta & Tesla Deliver Results
But if you are a visualization software or some kind of connector in between, you may not need to have that software.
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Instant Reaction Earnings Roundup: Microsoft, Meta & Tesla Deliver Results
So there is a lot that's going to happen over the next three to five years.
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Instant Reaction Earnings Roundup: Microsoft, Meta & Tesla Deliver Results
Yeah, for Microsoft, it's definitely there.
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Instant Reaction Earnings Roundup: Microsoft, Meta & Tesla Deliver Results
I mean, the only, I would say, the long-term hang-up is, you know, what happens when the open AI relationship breaks through?
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Instant Reaction Earnings Roundup: Microsoft, Meta & Tesla Deliver Results
I mean, or goes away.
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Instant Reaction Earnings Roundup: Microsoft, Meta & Tesla Deliver Results
That's the only big risk for Microsoft in the long run.
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Instant Reaction Earnings Roundup: Microsoft, Meta & Tesla Deliver Results
They'll have to figure out their own LLM by then.
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Instant Reaction Earnings Roundup: Microsoft, Meta & Tesla Deliver Results
But other than that, I mean, their cloud infrastructure product is pretty good.
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Instant Reaction Earnings Roundup: Microsoft, Meta & Tesla Deliver Results
And, you know, it's gaining market share.
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Instant Reaction Earnings Roundup: Microsoft, Meta & Tesla Deliver Results
And according to our calculations, it will overtake Amazon in the next, you know, let's say three odd years or so.
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Instant Reaction Earnings Roundup: Microsoft, Meta & Tesla Deliver Results
But it doesn't matter if they own or not because they have the IP rights only till I think it's 2032, one of those years.
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Instant Reaction Earnings Roundup: Microsoft, Meta & Tesla Deliver Results
And after that, they can't use those models after that.
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Instant Reaction Earnings Roundup: Microsoft, Meta & Tesla Deliver Results
So remember that part of it as well.
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Instant Reaction Earnings Roundup: Microsoft, Meta & Tesla Deliver Results
The financial part will stay, but it's the actual engine that is driving Copilot that's driving GitHub Copilot or the Microsoft 365 Copilot that you talk about.
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Instant Reaction Earnings Roundup: Microsoft, Meta & Tesla Deliver Results
That's the intelligence that goes into that model.
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Instant Reaction Earnings Roundup: Microsoft, Meta & Tesla Deliver Results
Well, they have their own models that are going on.
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Instant Reaction Earnings Roundup: Microsoft, Meta & Tesla Deliver Results
It's just not as good as whether it's OpenAI or Cloud at this point, but they are putting a lot of effort behind it and most of all leads that.
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Instant Reaction Earnings Roundup: Microsoft, Meta & Tesla Deliver Results
And that's where we need to see what kind of ROI do we see there?
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Instant Reaction Earnings Roundup: Microsoft, Meta & Tesla Deliver Results
And do they actually get their act together over the next few years?
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Instant Reaction Earnings Roundup: Microsoft, Meta & Tesla Deliver Results
Yeah, I was a bit surprised, actually, the 9% number on the software side.