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