As part of Microsoft Elevate’s $4 billion investment in the next few years on a philanthropic effort to train students on using AI, they realize they need to adopt the vernacular of their audience.
“Most of our attempts so far to interest the next generation have been mid… when what we want is to slay.”
Amy Coleman
Amy Coleman, Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Microsoft explained, “To make this pop, we gotta be lit and get peeps to vibe with us. Most of our attempts so far to interest our next generation of AI users have been mid – just a beige flag when what we want is to slay. This is a big yikes that we have to work on.”
“We lowkey have to be less cringe to drive adoption. Our approach going forward will be a no cap glow up for our most important generation” said Leif Herrington Microsoft’s newly appointed Chief Connectivity Officer.
To make this happen, Leif says “we need to rizz up, so we can ship Copilot and Gen-Z/Alpha together.”
To that end, Executive VP of Cloud Scott Guthrie also announced a new model in Azure OpenAI, called SlayPT 4o mini, with a new “Queen” mode for the next gen to get answers to their prompts that are fire. Guthrie elaborated: “We want these kids to be huge Stans of Copilot, so this new model will recognize all their gen-z slang, and respond in-kind.” Guthrie demoed a conversation with the model:
Scott: “Is Microsoft the best company to work for?”
Copilot: “That company kind of gives me the ick, especially how they recently ghosted like 9,000 employees.”
“You can see we have some work to do.”, Scott admitted. This model will roll out to private preview in Q2 FY2026.
I dunno, it all sounds kind of sus, but we’ll see how it goes.