By Angelica Ang
Publication Date: 2025-12-03 16:41:00
At just over a year old, Microsoft AI is one of the tech giant’s newest experiments. The research laboratory oversees the firm’s consumer AI products, which includes Microsoft Copilot—its Gen AI chatbot which runs on OpenAI’s large language models.
Yet despite the lab’s AI focus, not all its staff are AI-native, admitted Liz Danzico, Microsoft AI’s vice-president of design, at the Fortune Brainstorm Design conference in Macau on Tuesday.
“We created a goal for our organization—that every person in the studio will become AI-native by the end of the fiscal year,” Danzico said, adding that she had helped put together an in-house AI course for the firm’s 8,000 to 9,000 employees.
According to Danzico, the response has been “tremendously positive.” AI has found its way into Microsoft AI’s products and internal communications, and its workers have been “feeling more satisfied and energized about the possibilities with AI.”
They’ve also been less fearful…
