Microsoft forms new AI Research Group led by Harry Shum

A day after announcing a new artificial intelligence partnership with IBM, Google, Facebook and Amazon, Microsoft is upping the ante within its own walls. It is creating a new AI business unit, the Microsoft AI and Research Group, with will be led by Microsoft Research EVP Harry Shum, who will oversee 5,000 computer scientists, engineers and others who will all be “focused on the… Read More...