May marks the beginning of the tech conference season, and this year, we had three key players in the AI race — OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft — all hosting their respective developer conferences within a two-week period in May. If you missed the announcements, fret not! The Lab team is here to help you keep up with the fast-evolving AI developments and competitive landscape.

In this episode, Chelsea Freitas from our strategy team, along with Ryan Miller and Tom Trudeau from our partnerships team, took the Floor 9 mic and discussed all the highlights from the recent developer conferences, including:

• Microsoft’s hardware-centric Surface event - 0:52
• Is AI-powered Surface laptops a legitimate competitor to Apple? - 3:27
• AI-powered Recall feature for the Copliot+ PCs - 5:01
• Key announcements from Microsoft's Build event - 9:03
• Will people call them “AI” as more AI-powered features become productized - 15:25
• The advertising implications of Copilot and Microsoft’s AI features - 16:45
• Key announcements from Google’s I/O developer event - 19:55
• The impact of Google rolling out AI search - 21:23
• Google integrating Gemini AI into its suite of popular products - 24:31
• Google’s new multimodal AI-powered creative tools - 29:03
• Last thoughts on the AI race and wrap up - 32:52

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