Microsoft Creates Artificial Intelligence Research Group

Microsoft Creates Artificial Intelligence Research Group

Microsoft has created a 5,000-person engineering and research team focused on artificial intelligence, an effort to reposition the company to capitalize on the rapid growth of software aided by machine-learning algorithms. The move comes as Qi Lu, a longtime Microsoft engineering leader who was most recently executive vice president of the Applications and Services Group that includes Bing and Office, leaves the company to focus on his recovery from a bicycle accident.Lu, a former Yahoo engineer with dozens of patents to his name, is widely respected within the technology industry, but a rare public speaker outside of it. Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, worked for Lu when Nadella led engineering work on the Bing search engine. “Qi exemplifies what it means to have a deep sense of mission, purpose and…


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