By chance on a Sunday morning, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella penned a lengthy X post on the “Reverse Information Paradox” of artificial intelligence adoption and utilization within companies: the idea that although companies pay to use AI, they also risk revealing proprietary information.

Nadella argues that to best respond to this paradox, organizations should not prioritize the AI models themselves, but the “harness” around the model — the infrastructure that allows an AI model to operate as an agent and execute more complex, long-running tasks. However, this argument presents a false choice for organizations and customers: Either become dependent on a particular AI company or become dependent on the infrastructure that surrounds the AI model (and in this case, that infrastructure is Microsoft).