Microsoft has hired recent former Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence CEO Ali Farhadi.
Farhadi will work under Mustafa Suleyman, who recently started an in-house AI team at the company, according to two people familiar with the hiring. Farhadi is listed in Microsoft’s internal system with the title corporate vice president, one of the people said.
After Business Insider requested a comment from Microsoft, Suleyman posted about Farhadi’s hiring on LinkedIn.
Farhadi stepped down earlier this month as Ai2 CEO, where he worked to make AI research open and accessible to the public. He’s was a cofounder of Xnor.ai, an on-device AI model startup that Apple acquired for $200 million.
Suleyman formed the team at Microsoft in November focused on training “frontier models of all scales with our own data and compute at the state-of-the-art level” to make the company “self-sufficient in AI,” he told Business Insider at the time.’
Microsoft recently moved Suleyman to focus all of his “energy on our Superintelligence efforts and be able to deliver world class models for Microsoft over the next five years,” according to an email to employees announcing the changes.
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