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Microsoft's GenAI VP Joins OpenAI

CosmicTaco · 2024-10-15T09:32:27.381205+05:30

- 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](https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsofts-vp-genai-research-join-openai-2024-10-14/)

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

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