Tom Warren

It's whether they can be good enough to be able to do everything that developers want to do without having to touch those sort of cloud

cloud-powered models, but I think that's the most interesting part of these devices to me, is exactly how performant are they and exactly how well these local AI models will run.

I swear that thing's going to start at $3,000, but I'm the same.

I'm like, I don't need it, but I want it.

Yeah, agreed.

Appreciate it.

All right.

I'll speak soon.

Yep.

This happens every time I take a vacation or leave.

Microsoft decides we're going to do something massive and ruin Tom's life.

Phil Spencer, the longtime CEO of Microsoft Gaming, technically, but Xbox chief is what he's known as.

He's retiring, so he's leaving Microsoft.

Sarah Bond, the Xbox president, is also leaving Microsoft.

And then they're actually promoting Asha Sharma, who used to be on the core AI side at Microsoft, to the CEO of Microsoft Gaming, so replacing Phil Spencer, essentially.

So, yeah, big news, a big shake-up, should we say, of Xbox, which I think has been, I think with Phil Spencer, it's been a long time coming, right?

I think Xbox fans have expected that retirement, but perhaps not so much Sarah Bond leaving, so...

I think there's two surprises, right?

It's obviously that Sarah wasn't named Xbox chief and that Asher was the successor because that just wasn't... Yeah, that was a quiet surprise and a surprise hire, really.

But yeah, so Sarah has always been the sort of number two.