Microsoft's AI strategy is lost: Copilot penetration below 4.5%, stock price down over 34% in five months
Microsoft was once the surest winner in the AI era—betting on OpenAI and fully integrating Azure cloud services with GPT. But two years later, the situation is reversing: OpenAI has become a direct competitor; Claude and Gemini are quickly catching up, weakening GPT's monopoly advantage; Copilot's paid penetration rate is below expectations, with less than 4.5% of 450 million Office users paying; GitHub Copilot has been completely overtaken by Cursor and Claude Code.
Microsoft is rebooting: Nadella is personally getting involved in the Copilot product development, shifting towards a "model-agnostic" enterprise AI platform strategy, aiming to become the foundational layer connecting models, data, security, workflows, and enterprise software. The company expects capital expenditures to reach $190 billion by 2026.
Why it matters: Microsoft's AI competition has shifted from "betting on a single model" to a "platform ecosystem" battle, which is a systemic competition about organizational speed, product forms, customer relationships, and capital expenditures; Microsoft's second entrepreneurial phase in the AI era is underway.
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