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Microsoft is constructing a military of AI techies to construct new purposes
Microsoft is slowly constructing a military of AI techies spearheaded by ex-Google DeepMind co-founder and different veterans anticipating the brightest minds to hitch them.
Months after creating the brand new Microsoft AI organisation to assist advance their shopper AI merchandise and analysis, together with Copilot, the tech big has now introduced that it’s opening a brand new AI hub in London, UK.
According to the corporate, the brand new AI hub will drive pioneering work to “advance state-of-the-art language models and their supporting infrastructure, and to create world-class tooling for foundation models, collaborating closely with our AI teams across Microsoft and with our partners, including OpenAI.”
The new AI hub shall be led by Jordan Hoffmann, an AI scientist and engineer. Before becoming a member of Microsoft AI, Hoffmann distinguished himself as an AI pioneer at Inflection and DeepMind, primarily based in London.
Hoffmann shall be joined by a gaggle of Microsoft AI staff members primarily based within the firm’s London Paddington workplace.
“There is an enormous pool of AI talent and expertise in the UK, and Microsoft AI plans to make a significant, long-term investment in the region as we begin hiring the best AI scientists and engineers into this new AI hub,” the corporate mentioned in a blogpost.
In the submit, the tech big additionally highlighted its just lately introduced 2.5 billion pound funding to upskill the UK workforce for the AI period and to construct the infrastructure to energy the AI economic system, together with its dedication to convey 20,000 of probably the most superior GPUs to the nation by 2026.
