Microsoft AI, an organization specializing in artificial intelligence (AI) founded by the company in March, is opening a new AI hub in London.
The Microsoft AI London Hub will work with a team of Microsoft and its partners, including OpenAI, to create the language model, its supporting infrastructure, and the tools for the underlying model, said Mustafa Suleiman, Microsoft AI executive vice president and CEO. said on Monday (April). 8) Blog posts.
“I am deeply aware of the UK’s exceptional talent pool and AI ecosystem, and am excited to bring this initiative to the UK on behalf of Microsoft AI,” Suleyman said in the post. .
“Through close collaboration with thought leaders in the UK government, business and academia, the country is committed to advancing AI responsibly, with safety first, to drive investment, innovation and economic growth. I know that,” Suleiman added. “Our decision to open this hub in the UK reflects this ambition.”
The new AI hub will be led by Jordan Hoffman, formerly of Inflection and DeepMind, and staffed by members of the Microsoft AI team based in the company's London Paddington office, the post said.
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Microsoft plans to post job openings and actively hire in the coming weeks and months, the post said.
The new hub joins Microsoft's existing footprint in the UK, which includes the Microsoft Research Cambridge Institute and a £2.5 billion investment to train the UK workforce and build AI infrastructure for the AI era. This includes an investment of approximately $3.2 billion.
Suleyman, a co-founder of Inflection and DeepMind, joined Microsoft in March as head of consumer AI. This marks the first time that all of Microsoft's consumer AI businesses have been brought together under a single leader.
Additionally, Microsoft hired most of Inflection's staff.
On April 1, the UK and US pledged to work together to develop safe AI.
The countries have signed an agreement in which their AI safety laboratories will cooperate in testing cutting-edge AI models. The two countries also agreed to forge similar partnerships with other countries to promote AI safety around the world and conduct at least one joint test in a publicly accessible model.