Behind Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's push to get AI tools in developers' hands

Two days later on another stage, in another venue, at another developers' conference, Nadella made his second unannounced appearance of the week--this time at GitHub Universe. There Thomas Dohmke, GitHub's CEO, was showing off a new version of the company's AI programming tool, Copilot, that can generate computer code from natural language. Nadella was effusive: "I can code again!" he exclaimed. Today, Nadella will be onstage speaking to developers at Microsoft Ignite, where the company is announcing even more AI-based developer tools, including an Azure AI Studio that will let devs choose between model catalogs from not only Microsoft, but also the likes of Meta, OpenAI, and Hugging Face, as well as new tools for customizing Copilot for Microsoft 365. If it seems like Nadella is obsessed with developers, you're not wrong.