Asia-Pacific enterprises are frantically trying to study how best to use II to improve productivity, according to the new Microsoft survey data, which the new president of the company attributes the rapid lift of the region on the value chain.
“We have survived the bending point when two decades” made in ” -” Made in China “and” Made in Vietnam ” – it has moved to a decade” created in, “said Microsoft Asia Rodrigo KEDE Lima Wealth.
Asian firms make more design and technological work, which creates the basis for accepting the II. Lima said that in Asia 70% of all patents live for two-thirds of the developers and consume more graphic processors than anywhere else, LiMa said.
“We consume more II than the rest of the world,” he said. “The Region is ahead of the II”.
Lima took role in September after Microsoft in America. Prior to that, he held the post of president of the company in Latin America, which he believes prepared for work in “multifunctional, multicultural, multilingual” region. “Asia – Latin America on steroids,” he said.
However, the story of Asia has already turned over at least once in a short time lym in the role – thanks DEEPEEK startup on the basis of Hangzhou.
Before the Chinese launch fell into the markets, American major technology companies, like the only organizations that have enough capital to invest in expensive computing for training and launching models that dominate the new technology. However, Deepseek models require a much smaller computing power that potentially allows more companies to participate in II.
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For Lima Deepeek “proves that AI really happens and that it will be cheaper and more widespread.” In general, he believes that we will start seeing more “small language models”, or given AI to specific domains such as medicine.
And customers will accept the choice that offers the more competitive AI market. “One model can be a little worse (compared to others), but it will be good enough and much cheaper for certain tasks,” he said.
Why do Asian businesses want to use II?
Friday Microsoft released its annual The Labor Trends IndexThe uses both the survey and the data collected from office software to study trends and behavior in the workplace.
According to Microsoft, just over 60% of leaders in the Asia-Pacific region want to increase productivity. However, almost 85% of both business managers and employees based in Asia complain that they have no longer the time and energy. (Both of these figures are slightly higher than the world average).
Microsoft’s report accuses almost a permanent interruption at work for this gap. Data collected from the company’s products suggest notifications – meetings, emails or even just ping – violate workers every two minutes on average.
The American Technology Company believes that AI AI agents that use AI to solve the tasks defined by users-help to cover this gap between business requirements and resource restrictions. Lima suggested one example: AI’s tool can be able to attend the meeting in your detention, and report what your name was mentioned.
However, the growth of AI agents can put even more white collars, based on the knowledge that is automated.
Fortunately, Microsoft Data suggests that Asia Pacific leaders want to use the II in order to make things that people cannot do, for example, to be available 24/7 or to provide “unlimited ideas”.
Lima Optimistic AI will create new jobs by increasing economic performance, so that employment is increasing on the balance sheet. “I do not believe in eliminating work, I believe in work shifts,” he said.
However, he believes that understanding how the II works will be key to future workforce. “AI is a new mathematics,” he said. “You are going to create agents just like you create a spreadsheet. And if you don’t, you will not be productive as a person sitting next to you.”
Originally this story was presented on Fortune.com
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2025-04-29 02:00:00
Nicholas Gordon
