Jason Taylor, a former manager at Meta Platform Inc HALFit’s coming together Microsoft Corp’S MSFT AI supercomputing team, according to a LinkedIn post from Microsoft’s Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott.
“I am very excited to welcome Jason Taylor to Microsoft, who begins reporting to me today as CVP [corporate vice president] & Deputy CTO for our AI supercomputing efforts,” Scott wrote.
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As reported by The Verge, Taylor held various roles at Meta, including vice president of infrastructure, where he oversaw artificial intelligence, data and privacy infrastructure, as well as managed server budgets.
He also chaired the Open Compute Project Foundation from 2015 to 2017, promoting open source projects in data centers.
Microsoft and OpenAI are trying to improve their hardware capabilities to keep up with the rapid advances in AI technology.
Recent reports suggested plans to build a $100 billion supercomputer called “Stargate,” though Scott appears to downplay these rumors in his LinkedIn post, labeling much of the speculation “oddly wrong.”
This move follows the hiring of Microsoft Mustafa Suleymanco-founder of Alphabet Inc‘S GOOGLEGOOG Google DeepMind, as CEO of a new consumer AI division in March. This division oversees projects like Copilot, Bing, and Edge.
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