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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.
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman advocates for AI chatbots as tools for emotional offloading and self-detoxification, highlighting their role in providing nonjudgmental companionship and support, despite concerns from other tech leaders about over-reliance and legal risks.
The English Premier League has partnered with Microsoft for five years to integrate AI into its fan app, providing personalized content, real-time insights, and multilingual support, aiming to enhance fan engagement and digital experience.