Microsoft CEO Pushes Staff on Copilot Ambitions | PYMNTS.com

That’s according to a report Monday (Dec. 22) from The Information, citing an in-house email reviewed by the publication.

That message was from Nadella to Microsoft engineers working on a consumer version of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Copilot. A manager on the email thread pointed out Google Gemini’s progress in connecting that chatbot to Google Drive for certain tasks.

Nadella, however, seemed unhappy with the way Microsoft’s version of that technology had performed thus far, saying that the company’s programs for connecting Copilot with Gmail and Outlook “for [the] most part don’t really work” and are “not smart,” the report added.

A spokesperson for Microsoft declined to comment when reached by PYMNTS.

According to The Information, the last few months have seen the CEO become Microsoft’s “most influential…