Microsoft's GenAI VP Joins OpenAI
- Microsoft's VP of GenAI research, Sebastien Bubeck, is leaving to join OpenAI. - The role Bubeck will assume at the Microsoft-backed AI startup is unclear. - Bubeck's coauthors on a research paper on Microsoft's Phi LLMs remain at Microsoft and plan to continue developing the models. - This follows a series of departures from OpenAI, including CTO Mira Murati in September. - CEO Sam Altman denies any link between the departures and a planned restructuring of the company. Source: [Reuters]()
