Microsoft, freed from relying on OpenAI, joins the race for ‘superintelligence’
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Because of Microsoft’s landmark deal with OpenAI, the company was barred from pursuing its own AGI research. The agreement even capped how large a model Microsoft could train, restricting the company from building systems beyond a certain computing threshold. (This limit was measured in FLOPS, or the number of mathematical calculations an AI model performs per second. It is a rough approximation of the cumulative computing power used to train a model.)
“For a company of our scale, that’s a big limitation,” Suleyman told Fortune.
That’s all changing now: Suleyman announced the formation of the new MAI Superintelligence Team on Thursday. Led by Suleyman and part of the broader Microsoft AI business, the team will work toward “humanist superintelligence (HSI),” which Suleyman defined in a blog post as “incredibly advanced AI capabilities that always work for, in service of, people and humanity more generally.”
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