Saurabh Abhyankar

Executive Vice President & Chief Product Officer, Strategy Inc

Search every verified Saurabh Abhyankar interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. At MicroStrategy World 2024, Saurabh Abhyankar introduced "Auto," a new product that he said represents the transformation of the company's platform. He described Auto as using generative AI to provide linguistic skills, allowing it to understand users in multiple languages and access data based on user identity and context. Abhyankar stated that the product combines MicroStrategy's semantic graph and computation with OpenAI's large language model, along with a vector database he called the "knowledge store," to give the system memory. He also highlighted the expansion of HyperIntelligence, a Chrome and Edge extension that injects contextual information into web applications, and new plugins for Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams. Abhyankar discussed the company's multi-cloud strategy, noting that MicroStrategy added Google Cloud support in December 2023, joining existing support for AWS and Azure. He said this makes the company "maybe the only BI company to provide a managed Cloud solution on all three hyperscalers." He also announced a free trial called Auto Express, available at express.microstrategy.com, which allows users to build digital bots using sample or uploaded data. Abhyankar characterized MicroStrategy's core value as "freedom," including freedom of technology and freedom for frontline workers and visionaries to shape the future.