AI Frontiers team disbanded after being merged into Microsoft AI
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The AI Frontiers team under Microsoft Research was reorganized into Microsoft AI in early September, and its lead subsequently chose to leave, saying that the organization ended there. The lead attributed the team's disbandment to this reorganization; the currently public information comes only from the lead's own account, and Microsoft did not provide a response in the report.
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A former Microsoft researcher recounts organizing the AI Frontiers group within Microsoft Research after ChatGPT's release to pursue coherent, agent-focused and fundamental research efforts, and describes its September reorg into Microsoft AI, whose scaling-only philosophy he found incompatible. He states that AI Frontiers is over, that there will be no internships with the group in the coming year, and explains why he did not return to MSR.
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