In his annual letter, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the company has reorganized into two new reporting segments, Agents and Infra and Devices and Consumer, focusing on AI agents, model choice, and lower computing costs, as President Trump ordered federal agencies to use ‘Super Intelligence’ instead of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ in a Sept. 29 executive order. Microsoft offers more than 11,000 models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, and others, along with its own MAI family, which added over a dozen new models this year. Microsoft 365 Copilot has surpassed 30 million paid seats, and Nadella said the Maia 300 chip delivers 40% more tokens per watt than leading GPU-based systems. He also said inference will increasingly move between cloud and client devices, citing more than 1.6 billion monthly active Windows devices. Microsoft shares closed 0.20% higher at $532.95 on Wednesday, were down 0.50% after hours, and are up 10.20% year to date.
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