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Microsoft hired Ali Farhadi, the former AI2 CEO and Xnor.ai cofounder, as a corporate vice president reporting to Mustafa Suleyman, to join an expanding in-house AI team that aims to train frontier models with Microsoft data and compute and advance on-device AI over the next five years.
Microsoft has hired leading AI researchers Ali Farhadi, Hanna Hajishirzi, Ranjay Krishna, and Sophie Lebrecht from the Allen Institute for AI and the University of Washington to join Mustafa Suleyman’s Microsoft AI organization while retaining UW-affiliated positions. The hires come as Microsoft seeks to diversify from OpenAI and advance its ‘humanist superintelligence’ agenda, with the squad expected to bolster open-source model development and training efficiency. The moves follow Farhadi’s departure from Ai2 and reflect Ai2’s shifting funding toward applied AI under the Fund for Science and Technology, which is moving to a proposal-based system and prioritizing real-world AI applications over frontier model building.