Microsoft forms superintelligence team to rival Meta's, stresses 'humanist' focus
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Microsoft forms superintelligence team to rival Meta's, stresses 'humanist' focus
""I think about it as humanist superintelligence to clearly indicate this isn't about some directionless technological goal," Suleyman wrote. "We are doing this to solve real concrete problems and do it in such a way that it remains grounded and controllable.""
""We are not building an ill-defined and ethereal superintelligence; we are building a practical technology explicitly designed only to serve humanity," he added."
""As the pace of AI progress accelerates, developing superintelligence is coming into sight," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a memo at the lab's launch. "I believe this will be the beginning of a new era for humanity, and I am fully committed to doing what it takes for Meta to lead the way.""
Microsoft announced the MAI Superintelligence Team, led by Mustafa Suleyman, with the stated aim of being the world's best place to research and build AI. The team frames its work as humanist superintelligence that focuses on solving concrete problems while remaining grounded and controllable. Microsoft rejects narratives of an AGI race and positions its efforts as explicitly designed to serve humanity. The announcement follows Meta's Superintelligence Lab launch led by Alexandr Wang and Mark Zuckerberg's statement about a new era; Meta later laid off 600 employees from that division. Microsoft emphasizes a careful, differentiated approach to advanced AI development.
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