Microsoft forms «superintelligence» team, aims for human-centric AGI

Microsoft will start making in-house AI models to compete on the frontier level
The software behemoth is going all in on AGI, after a new agreement with OpenAI finally lets them. (Picture: generated)
No longer hampered by their agreement with OpenAI on AI models, Microsoft’s AI Chief, Mustafa Suleyman, plans to join the race for Artificial General Intelligence.

Before OpenAI’s reorganization, Microsoft could not pursue its own frontier models — relying instead on other people’s tech.

This is now gone, and Suleyman wants to build a «world-class, frontier-grade research capability in-house,» Business Insider writes.

He says Microsoft is making major investments in compute, expanding its chip development and is optimizing its infrastructure for AI:

— It’s the number one priority for us to make sure this is the most performant infrastructure in the world, he said in an earlier meeting.

Read the full story at Business Insider.