Why Microsoft’s CEO is ready to take on Google with ChatGPT 

Seriously the way Satya answers those questions with such passion, positivity, and intelligence ... it's honestly inspiring.

This was a great interview. Tough questions, but presented fairly. I’d love to see more of these.

That was one of the best interviews I've seen in a long time! I've spent a decade in a newsroom next to award-winning reporters and have heard many questions being asked. Nilay did a fantastic job of bringing up the difficult topics without hesitation (but with respect and perspective) and frankly Satya was receptive to the questions and responded openly and clearly. I came away with a lot of respect for both of these men.

One of the best tech interviews ever! Great job Nilay

This is a pretty damn good example of a textbook interview. This was such a great discussion.

Great interviewer! Asked tough questions and brought up big concerns. Great job 🤖

Microsoft's CEO is being diplomatic here, but once the user experience of querying the model is seen as vastly superior to searching for answers on random websites, it's unlikely that people will still want to do that. There'll be a complete paradigm shift, and many categories of websites and their business model won't make sense anymore

Issues with the video quality have now been resolved! Apologies that it happened in the first place, but a big thank you for all your patience. 🙌 - Vjeran

This was a fantastic interview! Amazed to hear Satya say that this shift needs to have some regulation around it. A refreshing take from a tech CEO

Thank you so much, the verge! For bringing up Satya in the interview. Definitely not easy.

Awesome interview!! Love his acknowledgement of Microsoft's infamous past branding issues 😂

really surprised at the quality of this interview , Verge is doing great work with their amazing people, please more of this!

Satya is very very confident about his new product.... 👍

Great interview! Really felt you were asking questions that were thought provoking and were asked with research done behind

I remember Satya's talks as a freshly minted CEO of Microsoft about a future where we could access all our content across screens and operating systems - a platform-agnostic future. It was a prescient vision, and we are now living in that future. I get the same feeling of seeing the future from his talk here. I look forward to welcoming our co-pilot agent overlords.

Of all the tech CEO’s he’s the one I’d want to most sit down and have a chat with.

This was a great interview all around. Tough but fair questions, engaging discussion and great responses from Satya. Well done Nilay and The Verge team!

This was an incredible interview. Your questions were great. I loved all the answers too. The lighting and camera work was top notch.

A great interview. Kudos to Nilay and the team

Incredible. Clicked on this out of curiosity and ended up watching the entire interview. Great work!

Satya's answer to questions are so verbose and free flowing.. As if they are coming straight out of chat GPT.

Excellent questions. I have watched several of Satya’s interview and this has by far been the best interview with insightful questions. Well done Nilay!

You asked some really hard-hitting questions, this was an awesome interview!

This is like our best thumbnail ever

Enjoyed every second! Rarely I see interviews this well balanced.

I've already been using Bing as my default for about a couple years now, since I switched to Edge. The design of the search results are actually more helpful than Google already imo.

That was an astonishing interview by the Verge team, as Satya was talking i was reflecting on his books. He certainly is a person who does what he says he is going to do….translating poetry as a first prompt haha brilliant!

That was a very good tech interview with plenty of well-asked tough questions. Good job!

Great interview Nilay! I also admired the straightforward answers that Satya gave - not something we see in action with many tech CEO’s these days. I think MS is on to this as a winner…

Awesome interview. Loved to hear his outlook on the future. Specifically his thoughts on Bing

Wow Nilay. This is one of the best tech interviews of all time. Really. Than you.

Wow! What a powerful interview. Much respect to both of these men. Makes me wonder if this new Bing Chat can potentially wipe out the need for front end websites. Seems like the Bing Chat interface can potentially be that front end for everything as it's pulling in all the relevant content from else where. It's as if Bing Chat is generating a custom front end with exactly what you want, dynamically in your face. I think it's going to even pull in pictures, likely maps and other visuals I assume. Can this change the way we make or think about websites, can a site just be pure JSON data or some other structured API instead for those that just need to get information out there and not technically have a flashy website?

Satya can really answer great questions with ease. Wow what a leader

Such a great interview! Great questions, great answers and a CEO who actually has a plan.

The thumbnail rocks! Did you use a 360 cam to film this interview?

Actually good interview. Well done Verge

What an interview!! Satya is so passionate about MS. Great at answering really tough questions. Inspiring leadership indeed.

Great interview. Can’t wait to Bing it! Thanks for your good work, Nilay.

This is a really quality interviewer asking insightful questions and letting Satya answer. Very well done!

very comprehensive interview ! I loved the statement "Google will show they can dance and we are the people who made them dance" !

I loved the interview and it was interesting to see the fear that this is causing not only to Google but people like you the verge that profit from ads. As he said let’s dance 🔥

This was fantastic and fearless. Great interviewing skills.

Wow! Satya is fantastic, so concise and well spoken

Such a terrific interview. Nilay and the verge just made my day.

Great interview! It would be interesting to see how this area evolves. Also, props to whoever created the thumbnail 😂

Great interview. Satya is so smart. Of course they kept the Bing name Because It's Not Google

Nilay stole the show. This is the first time I was more interested on the questions than Satya’s answers. And it is not easy to take the attention aways away from a charismatic leader like Satya. Thanks so much for the great interview.

One of the best tech interview , i watched recently . Interesting questions and and smart answers.would like to see more to come from you Nilay

Congrats Nilay, awesome interview!

It feels like it's been a while since i've seen such good questions. Satya's answers were mostly very good at answering them too

Wow, great interview. Looking forward to increased competition in the search space.

What a fantastic interview. Nilay asks some great questions, but Satya absolutely impresses with his very insightful and though provoking responses!

Excellent work, Nilay!

What a really really great interview by Nilay with awesome answers by Satya. Super exciting stuff!

Love the questions the host asks great work!

Microsoft has HUGE advantage here: As advertising is not their "core" business with little or no financial incentives, they can afford to go ALL OUT. Google, OTOH, has to thread very carefully as 60% of its business derives from advertising. This is the proverbial kid who goes ALL out with nothing to lose against a seasoned pro and actually wins the game~

Now I became fan of Mr Satya, Awesome interview

Nice interview! You really dug in with incisive questioning and followups that seemed to cut through any well rehearsed PR answers. Refreshing to hear. Satya did a great job too imo

Finally, some more images from the event and a great interview.

What a brilliant interview, great questioning on some really potent issues - top top content

Awesome Interview! IMO the best tech interview in a long time.

This was a very enlightening interview 💐

From one Nilay to another.... That was a good interview...

Damn I wish this interview was like an hour long. Its a really good interview.

Great interview. Was engaging throughout. Excellent questions and answers throughout!

What an interview! 20 years from now, people will tune back to this to hear how MSFT increased their search share..!

Fantastic interview! Both classy guys

Wow, that was such a great interview. The questions were very relevant to the impact of the new Bing and Edge capabilities powered by AI

Really appreciate the last question. I do question some of the branding and product decision they make sometimes. Great interview.

Loved how he answered the brand question at end.

Everybody in the chat calls this a interview. Nilay: no no its a podcast.

One of the best interviews since a long lonng time!

The thumbnail could have been better. An amazing professional interview gets superseded by the impression of "someone must have put Satya's face over some random commentary."

Great set of questions!

Such humble and mature answers. Great guy!

Fantastic interview. Great questions and great responses. Made me think about the exciting future of it while thinking of some of the potential issues.

Great questions from this interviewer. Many people would be afraid to ask tough questions. I felt like the answers were spot on as well. Good job guys.

Wow... Great interview. You both rock 💘

Good interview and interviewer

Good interview. It sounded like MS have decided to push through with the chat version of Bing until some publisher(s) take them to court over it. I can't remotely see how it is going to increase traffic to publishers when users get all the answers within the chat itself. My guess is, MS will have to come up with some sort of a partner program like Adsense that will reward blogs/websites with revenue share whenever their websites are shown in the reference of each Chat response. So I think this will be the beginning of the end for small publishers, and SEO is about to change wildly. Google, from their "leaked" screenshots also seems to be doing something similar. However, in the long-term, rewarding publishers generously is going to be something that these companies will have to do, because as Nilay mentioned, the responses will get watered down over time. But I can't see this happening for a long time, so it's time for small publishers to buckle up.

Great interview! I'm still wondering about the monetization model though, is Bing going to give answers from sites that paid to be there? It's not like a search webpage where you can see multiple links at once, it's going to give answers generated from specific sources. I hope the info it gives aren't full of advertisements 😅

Nilay, good for you. This was a very good interview

Great interview with great questions and great replies from Satya.

Satya's answers are much better than most tech personalities

Super good interview, he could have easily did a victory dance on Google instead he was humble and thoughtful

The interviewer is great man! Nilay you did a great job, lucky for company like Verge have you, you are quite valuable. Also, I now can understand why Satya Nadella is the only genius guy in the silicon valley with great risks appetite and yet great in creating businesses with fair share of market competition, he is bringing the next age of cloud computing without anyone noticing an inch of it.

Nilay, great interview - thanks a lot for that. Nilay, you did a great job :-)

Outstanding interview.

0:06 Damn. Nilay is sitting on the whole damn Microsoft Campus lol

Amazing interview from the both parts, I am really excite to see this new products

You know, this should become a regular series for The Verge on here & not just the podcasts.

One of the best tech interview I have seen, Great Job Team. 🙌

Nice interview, very good questions

This is a great interview!

Great interview!!! 🚀🚀

Others have said it.. Excellent interview!

Amazing questions, amazing answers, amazing conversation... Thank you

Well this was a pleasant surprise

Great interview from Nilay here

Nadella is truly adept at evading the questions asked.