From the moment he became chief executive of Microsoft, Satya Nadella was talking about artificial intelligence. On his first day, in February 2014, in an email to staff he predicted that machine learning would help intelligence to become “ambient” over the ensuing decade. The next year, he was mooting “the age of AI”, as the American software company invested heavily in its development. By May 2018, Nadella had described it as “perhaps the most defining technology of our times”.
Now Wall Street is listening. Big Tech stocks, battered last year by a market rout, have staged an extraordinary recovery rally as investors clamber to back the key players in what has been hailed as a revolution. Microsoft’s shares are up 45 per cent since the
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