Former Meta government Jason Taylor is becoming a member of Microsoft’s AI supercomputing group. In a LinkedIn submit on Monday, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott says Taylor will tackle the function of company vp and deputy CTO to assist “build the next set of systems that will push the frontier of AI forward.”
Taylor labored at Meta from 2009 to 2022, the place he most not too long ago served as the corporate’s vp of infrastructure. He dealt with AI, information, and privateness infrastructure, in addition to managing the corporate’s server budgets, in accordance with his LinkedIn profile. Taylor was additionally the chair of the Open Compute Mission Basis from 2015 to 2017, a corporation that promotes open-source designs in information facilities.
Microsoft and OpenAI want extra strong {hardware} to maintain up with quickly advancing AI programs. Final month, a report from The Data instructed Microsoft and OpenAI needed to construct a $100 billion supercomputer, dubbed “Stargate,” to energy OpenAI’s fashions. (Nevertheless, Microsoft’s Scott appears to push again on these rumors in his submit on LinkedIn at the moment, saying that a lot of the current hypothesis is “amusingly wrong.”)
In March, Microsoft introduced that it employed Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman because the CEO of a brand new shopper AI division that oversees Copilot, Bing, and Edge.
