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The link title is misleading. MS will not have 5k people working on AI. They merged their MS Research and their AI engineering team. It's not like they are g
by olympus 10y ago
The link title is misleading. MS will not have 5k people working on AI. They merged their MS Research and their AI engineering team. It's not like they are going to drop all the other research they are doing to focus solely on AI. The new org is called the AI and Research Group. This is just a reorganization to democratize some of the resources available within MS.
- tluyben2 10y agoHope not... their rise4fun teams are some of the best stuff I can find on the web. Please keep that fundamental research alive.
- kowdermeister 10y agoI don't understand how that's not the same. Ok, they are not hiring 5000 new people, but the end result is the same.
- basch 10y agothere are people who research things besides AI
- quickmouse 10y agowith more than 5,000 computer scientists and engineers focused on the company’s AI product efforts.
- eitally 10y agoOnly if you stretch that definition beyond what most people are comfortable doing. The org includes the entire Bing team, for example. This would be like Google saying they have an x,xxx big AI team because they include the whole Search org, or the Apps org because they use ML in their products, too, and so do the Maps Mobile team, etc ad infinitum. It's great that MS is merging these dispersed orgs, and the actual headline is fine, but calling it a "5,000 person AI division" is disingenuous at best.