Well, who’d have thought things would be so quickly heading into the world of AI! Twitter’s acquisition of Magic Pony in 2015 was just the beginning of Silicon Valley’s hunger to buy anything in the machine learning space. More fish and loaves are needed, as we have a disturbing famine of Computer Scientists, especially with knowledge of the ML and the AI space.
Microsoft are moving around some 5,000 computer scientists and engineers to focus on the company’s AI product efforts. This will accelerate the delivery of new capabilities to customers across agents, apps, services and infrastructure. This will be their new direction, and new faith. We just need to keep down the costs of feeding and watering them!
Its a cool move and if they get it right they will build the most powerfu...
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