Robert Nehrbas

Inspired by your success | Biz Apps COO @ Microsoft | Husband, Father, optimist, tech enthusiast

[Robert Nehrbas @robnehrbas]

Bingo

[Mustafa Suleyman @mustafasuleyman]

As @satyanadella says, we're making great progress on shipping MAI models that are higher quality, faster and cheaper across MSFT.

In PowerPoint, our image model cut costs 84% compared with GPT-Image-2.

In OneDrive, it lifted save rates 26% and cut latency by ~25%. It's also the default model in Bing delivering great quality and performance.

In Dragon Copilot, our transcription model now covers 58 languages and halves the error rate on multilingual clinical transcription.

And of course the flights we have in motion on GitHub and Excel will no doubt be huge too!

More details in the blog here: https://t.co/JVU42BGuQ7

[Sumit Chauhan @sumit_c]

The best AI for productivity isn't one giant model. It's a system that picks the right model for each task.

We post-trained MAI-Code-1-Flash on everyday Excel work: frontier-level results, lower cost, running on H100 and A100 GPUs.

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/GUwbNABiw6

[Josh Cook | Microsoft MVP @FlowAltDelete]

I just found an agent that analyzes OTHER agents.

Microsoft has a verified Insights Agent inside Microsoft 365 Copilot.

You can point it at a specific agent and ask for:

Unique users
DAU and WAU
Growth
Full usage insights

An agent watching your agents. Microsoft is cooking.

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/xv6csf1SbV

[Robert Nehrbas @robnehrbas]

@Jason A coffee and a Cuban - great start

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

There is a process that I have used, and still use, to reignite life...

Create two timelines—6 months and 12 months—and list up to five things you dream of having (including, but not limited to, material wants: house, car, clothing, etc.), being (be a great cook, be fluent in Chinese, etc.), and doing (visiting Thailand, tracing your roots overseas, racing ostriches, etc.) in that order.

If you have difficulty identifying what you want in some categories, as most will, consider what you hate or fear in each and write down the opposite.

Do not limit yourself, and do not concern yourself with how these things will be accomplished. For now, it’s unimportant. This is an exercise in reversing repression.

Be sure not to judge or fool yourself. If you really want a Ferrari, don’t put down solving world hunger out of guilt. For some, the dream will be fame, for others fortune or prestige. All people have their vices and insecurities. If something will improve your feeling of self-worth, put it down.

Drawing a blank? In that case, consider these questions:

1) What would you do, day to day, if you had $100 million in the bank?
2) What would make you most excited to wake up in the morning to another day?

Don’t rush—think about it for a few minutes.

If still blocked, fill in the five “doing” spots with the following:

— one place to visit
— one thing to do before you die (a memory of a lifetime)
— one thing to do daily
— one thing to do weekly
— one thing you’ve always wanted to learn

What does “being” entail doing?

Convert each “being” into a “doing” to make it actionable. Identify an action that would characterize this state of being or a task that would mean you had achieved it. People find it easier to brainstorm “being” first, but this column is just a temporary holding spot for “doing” actions.

Here are a few examples:

1) Great cook —> make Christmas dinner without help

2) Fluent in Chinese —> have a five-minute conversation with a Chinese co-worker

Determine three steps for each of the dreams in just the 6-month timeline and take the first step now.

Define three steps for each dream that will get you closer to its actualization.

Set actions—simple, well-defined actions—for now, tomorrow (complete before 11 A.M.) and the day after (again completed before 11 A.M.). Once you have three steps for each of the four goals, complete the three actions in the “now” column.

Do it now. Each should be simple enough to do in five minutes or less. If not, rachet it down. If it’s the middle of the night and you can’t call someone, do something else now, such as send an e-mail, and set the call for first thing tomorrow.

If the next stage is some form of research, get in touch with someone who knows the answer instead of spending too much time in books or online, which can turn into paralysis by analysis.

The best first step, the one I recommend, is finding someone who’s done it and ask for advice on how to do the same.

[The Techno Optimist @technooptimist1]

Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath "Bro, there is no failure."

"That is what other people think of you to keep you down. There's no failure. If you were left on an island and it happened, you would just brush it off and move on. It's everybody else that you think is judging you. But then, here's the secret. They don't give a fuck about you. They are living their own lives. So it's your perception of what they think of you."

"There is no failure. There's do and learn. Do and learn. Do and learn. Do and learn."

@StanfordAILab

[Josh Cook | Microsoft MVP @FlowAltDelete]

Microsoft’s own coding model just showed up inside Microsoft Scout.

MAI-Code-1-Flash is now available as a model option alongside Claude, GPT, and Gemini.

Interesting move.

Microsoft is continuing to invest in its own frontier models, not just hosting everyone else’s.

Have you tried MAI-Code-1-Flash yet?
What do you think?

[Robert Nehrbas @robnehrbas]

Thank you @Scaramucci for penning this amazing perspective, which moved me emotionally and filled me with American pride. America is such an amazing idea and I love the values that lay as our foundation.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

https://t.co/GevTqHPvk3

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

https://t.co/GevTqHPvk3

[Robert Nehrbas @robnehrbas]

@gbellseattle That would be awesome

[Dave “Softy” Mahler @Softykjr]

100%.

Needs to happen

[Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota]

One of the best skits of the modern SNL era.

[Robert Nehrbas @robnehrbas]

Amazing

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

The future of the firm is a learning loop in which human capital and token capital compound.

With our new Frontier Co., our ambition is to help every enterprise build its own AI capability, and to help create a frontier ecosystem where every organization can turn its knowledge, workflows, and judgment into its own AI systems that continuously improve. https://t.co/mvYhkRFyqa

[Josh Cook | Microsoft MVP @FlowAltDelete]

Copilot Cowork is GA.

Hope your billing policies are already set up.

They aren’t?

I wrote a quick guide so you can get them in place before usage starts burning money.
https://t.co/GIQQwby90n

I’m off camping for a few days with no cell service.

Posts are scheduled.

Good luck 🫡