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Microsoft is constructing a military of AI techies to construct new functions
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 client AI merchandise and analysis, together with Copilot, the tech large has now introduced that it’s opening a brand new AI hub in London, UK.
In accordance with the corporate, the brand new AI hub will drive pioneering work to “advance state-of-the-art language fashions and their supporting infrastructure, and to create world-class tooling for basis fashions, collaborating intently with our AI groups throughout Microsoft and with our companions, together with OpenAI.”
The brand new AI hub can be led by Jordan Hoffmann, an AI scientist and engineer. Earlier than becoming a member of Microsoft AI, Hoffmann distinguished himself as an AI pioneer at Inflection and DeepMind, primarily based in London.
Hoffmann can be joined by a bunch of Microsoft AI group members primarily based within the firm’s London Paddington workplace.
“There is a gigantic pool of AI expertise and experience within the UK, and Microsoft AI plans to make a major, long-term funding within the area as we start hiring one of the best AI scientists and engineers into this new AI hub,” the corporate mentioned in a blogpost.
Within the put up, the tech large additionally highlighted its not too long ago introduced 2.5 billion pound funding to upskill the UK workforce for the AI period and to construct the infrastructure to energy the AI financial system, together with its dedication to carry 20,000 of probably the most superior GPUs to the nation by 2026.
