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Meta has reportedly hired three more AI researchers from Google DeepMind, according to The Information. Microsoft, too, has added several former DeepMind staff in recent months. The growing competition among tech giants highlights the race to secure top AI talent and strengthen their artificial intelligence capabilities.
Among new hires, former Google Gemini engineering lead Amar Subramanya joined Microsoft AI as corporate vice-president.
Humans beat AI programs made by Google and OpenAI at an international mathematics competition, but the technology shows some "very exciting" progress.
Microsoft has hired around two dozen engineers from Google DeepMind to strengthen its AI team and accelerate Copilot development, intensifying the talent war among tech giants.
Microsoft has reportedly hired more than two dozen employees from Google’s DeepMind, the artificial intelligence research lab. From top management to others, Alphabet’s Google has undergone a major reshuffle in its employees. As tensions escalate between Copilot and Gemini, several key roles have now become vacant
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Cryptopolitan on MSNMicrosoft enters AI talent wars, poaching 20 AI staff from Google’s DeepMind research divisionMicrosoft has hired more than 20 artificial intelligence pros from Google’s DeepMind unit in the past six months, intensifying Silicon Valley’s escalating
Late last year, Dominic King and Christopher Kelly were poached by Suleyman from DeepMind to run a new AI health unit that has already developed an AI medical system that it says is four times more successful than human doctors at diagnosing complex ailments.
With the acquisition of DeepMind, Google will acquire a whole new set of technologies related to artificial intelligence. But what will it use them for, and should we be concerned?
DeepMind’s project is part of a broad effort to build artificial intelligence that can play enormously complex, three-dimensional video games, including Quake III, Dota 2 and StarCraft II.