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Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group comes to an end
Microsoft Research is the big research lab of Microsoft. A blog post on hunch.net announced the end of its AI Frontiers group. It was the most-voted AI story on Hacker News today, with 456 points and 276 comments. A second link to the same post got 81 points.
Our sources do not say why the group closed or what happens to its researchers. So treat this as a signal, not a full story yet.
Why it matters
Research groups that publish openly give the world a view that is not tied to selling a product. When they close, more of AI's direction is set inside product teams racing each other. We do not know the reasons here, but the question is worth asking.
Sources
hunch.net (via Hacker News) ↗
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