Inside Microsoft's AI Superfactory with Scott Guthrie
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Hey everyone, welcome to The Neuron. I'm Corey. We're here again today at Microsoft Ignite 2025 in San Francisco. And today we're joined by a special guest. I'm here with Scott Guthrie, who is the EVP of Cloud and AI here at Microsoft. How you doing, Scott?
Doing well, Corey. Thanks for having me.
Good, I sure appreciate it. It's great to have you on. You've been at Microsoft a long time now, haven't you?
Yeah, 28 and a half years, so it's been a while. It feels like just yesterday, but it's been a while.
You've seen a lot of change over the course of that, I imagine. That's still early consumer internet even at that point.
It was before Netscape had just come out. The internet was just starting to get big. IE3, I think, came out. This summer, I was an intern at Microsoft. And so it was all still pretty new. And yeah, it's amazing how the world's changed since then.
And today, the word of the day is agents, for sure. Agents in Copilot, in Windows, in Azure, everywhere, I guess.
Yeah. I think that's, that's, you know, the fun thing of technology is there's always something new. And, uh, you know, at the same time, the new thing builds on the things of the past. And so, uh, you know, with agents, obviously they have the similar dynamics of the early days of the internet. We're all still trying to figure out what you can do with them and how they work and what the patterns are and how you run them reliably at scale. And, A lot of what we're doing at Ignite and talking about is just that. How do you build them with things like GitHub and Copilot Studio? And how do you integrate them into employee workflows with things like Microsoft 365 Copilot? How do you run them on infrastructure with things like Azure?
How do you connect them to custom data with things like Fabric and then introduce your own custom models with Foundry? And then, in particular, one of the things we talked about at this event and announced today is how do you kind of run them and operate them and observe them as they're doing things inside your company? And with our new Agent 365 offering, we now have a way that you can sort of even register the agents, have them have an identity, watch what they're doing, and then ultimately be able to govern and control and orchestrate them at scale so that you can really focus on delivering business value. And there's still a lot of things to figure out across all those things. And there will be for years.
And there will be for years. But if you just look even at this event versus our one last year, it's similar to the early days of the internet. It's amazing how much progress has happened. The other big announcement we made today was obviously we do all that with OpenAI, but we also announced our expanded partnership with Anthropic. And so we're also using Anthropic's cloud models inside GitHub. We have it for a while, but then also inside M365. And then now it's available on Azure as a model you can use with our AI Foundry offer.
Natively right there.
natively running inside Azure and being able to leverage and work across everything I just mentioned.
Well, that's an interesting approach you guys have taken, too, in my opinion. I like that, you know, there's the partnership with OpenAI. We're building models on our own. We're going to go and we're going to build our own tools. We're going to look at other people's tools. We're going to work with third-party model providers. And I think I've always wondered kind of what is the reasoning behind there? Is it a matter of choice for users?
I think, you know, I think there's a, you know, different users have preferences. I mean, I think we saw that pretty clearly with GitHub Copilot where, you know, a lot of people just really prefer cloud for developer scenarios. You know, other people have a preference for codecs and, you know, other people have preference for other mechanisms. And so I think we're very much about, you know, how do we provide choice and flexibility? And I think especially given just how dynamic and how fast the AI space is moving,
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