AaronApr 23
Steve Troughton-Smith

Microsoft was investing in OpenAI years before most anybody else knew what an LLM was, but what have they done with all that head start? Where is the moat? Where is the expertise? The competitive advantage?

Is there anything that company can't fumble? 😅

Apr 22 at 6:33pmIvory for Mac
Show threadFossilizedCarlosApr 22
@stroughtonsmith just copilot offering to summarize that which should not be summarized… 😅
Show threadCallum JonesApr 22
@stroughtonsmith notepad had a copilot icon though
Show threadBrian WebsterApr 22
@stroughtonsmith Who needs strategy when you have 81 Copilots instead! 🤪 https://teybannerman.com/strategy/2026/03/31/how-many-microsoft-copilot-are-there.html
How many products does Microsoft have named ‘Copilot’? I mapped every one

Update (9 Apr 2026): Another one. A helpful person sent in Microsoft 365 Copilot for US Government. That's 81. Chart updated.

Tey Bannerman
Show threadFranklin Delano StalloneApr 22

@stroughtonsmith that and Anthropic coming in 10 years after Open AI and caught up, possibly on route to top them.

It’s almost as if the core LLM functionality doesn’t mean as much as those early adopters though and they’ve wasted any chance of an advantage.

Show threadVáclav VančuraApr 23
@stroughtonsmith I know a thing or two about that, sadly.
Show threadebbiApr 23
@stroughtonsmith I think it did the opposite. In my area (finance) copilot is what’s bundled into our Microsoft office. And copilot as a harness to OpenAI models is so bad, people are dismissing AI entirely just from their copilot experience.