Microsoft's AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has recruited former Google DeepMind colleagues who developed the popular podcast-generating feature 'Audio Overviews'. The team, including Marco Tagliasacchi, Zalán Borsos, and Matthias Minderer, will join Microsoft's Zurich AI lab to contribute to the development of the next generation of Copilot, focusing on interactive AI agents with advanced capabilities.
Microsoft’s artificial intelligence head Mustafa Suleyman has poached his former colleagues at Google DeepMind who built its popular podcast-generating feature, as the rival companies race to build lucrative applications from the cutting-edge technology. Suleyman, a British entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind in 2010, has hired Marco Tagliasacchi and Zalán Borsos, two senior scientists behind “Audio Overviews” which is part of Google’s AI research tool NotebookLM.
“It’s a stellar team and will be an important hub for alongside our London office, which is growing fast too!” Suleyman wrote on LinkedIn. “AI continues to be a transformative force, with audio playing a critical role in shaping more natural, intuitive and immersive interactions,” wrote Tagliasacchi on LinkedIn. The move comes amid a fierce battle for talent between rival tech groups for the best AI talent.
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