Article 6M8T3 Microsoft hires former Meta exec to bolster AI supercomputing team

Microsoft hires former Meta exec to bolster AI supercomputing team

by
Emma Roth
from The Verge - All Posts on (#6M8T3)
STK095_Microsoft_04.0.jpg Illustration: The Verge

Former Meta executive Jason Taylor is joining Microsoft's AI supercomputing team. In a LinkedIn post on Monday, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott says Taylor will take on the role of corporate vice president and deputy CTO to help build the next set of systems that will push the frontier of AI forward."

Taylor worked at Meta from 2009 to 2022, where he most recently served as the company's vice president of infrastructure. He handled AI, data, and privacy infrastructure, as well as managing the company's server budgets, according to his LinkedIn profile. Taylor was also the chair of the Open Compute Project Foundation from 2015 to 2017, an organization that promotes open-source designs in data centers.

Microsoft and OpenAI need more robust...

Continue reading...

External Content
Source RSS or Atom Feed
Feed Location http://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml
Feed Title The Verge - All Posts
Feed Link https://www.theverge.com/
Reply 0 comments