Microsoft announced
that it has created a "Microsoft AI and Research Group", which brings together
Microsoft’s research organization with over 5000 computer scientists and
engineers who are focused on Microsoft’s AI product efforts. The announcement
builds on Microsoft’s deep focus on AI and seeks to accelerate the delivery of
new capabilities to customers in the areas of apps, agents, services, and
infrastructure. The new organization will include AI product engineering, basic
and applied research labs, and Microsoft’s New Experiences and Technologies
(NExT) group.
Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella stated that Microsoft is
infusing AI into everything they deliver across their computing platforms and
experiences.
According to Harry Shum, the EVP of the new Microsoft AI and
Research Group, the move will bring research and engineering even closer
together and will accelerate the company’s ability to deliver more personal and
intelligent computing experiences to people and organizations.
Microsoft says its AI efforts are based on the following
approaches:
- Agents: changing human and computer interactions through agents such as Cortana
- Applications: infuse every application (e.g., Skype and Office 365) with AI
- Services: make cognitive capabilities such as vision, speech, and machine analytics available to every application developer in the world
- Infrastructure: build the world’s most powerful AI supercomputer with Azure and make it available to anyone
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