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Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence Head Mustafa SuleMan hunt a colleague in front of Google Deepmind, who built a popular podcast generation function to compete for rivals to build advantageous applications from the most advanced technology.
Srienn, a British entrepreneur who co -founded deep mind in 2010, MARCO TAGLIASACCHI and Zalánborsos, two senior scientists behind Google’s Notebooklm, “Audio Outline” I hired. With this feature, the user can convert the text into an audio with an attractive conversation podcast style.
This pair has also worked on Deepmind’s future AI agent ASTRA. This allows you to answer questions in real time through video, audio and textbooks.
Deepmind’s third employment, Matthias Minderer, focuses on the development of vision and the ability to analyze images. Researchers will participate in Microsoft’s new AI lab in Zurich.
The three men announced their movements on Tuesday. For those who are familiar with employees, researchers will build a next -generation co -pilot to create an interactive AI agent that can complete tasks from flight reservation to calendar management. He said that it was essential for pushing.
“This is a great team, and it will be an important hub (Microsoft AI) alongside the London office. Slayman wrote to Linkedin.
“AI keeps a change in transformation, and audio plays an important role in forming a more natural, intuitive and immersive interaction,” says Tagliasacchi in Linkedin.
This movement occurs in a fierce battle between rival high -tech groups for the best AI talent.
SULEYMAN left Google in 2022, worked as a venture investor, and later created AI startups.
He joined Microsoft in March 2024 and participated as part of a contract to bring several members of the FetchRection staff to a US technical company. SULEYMAN hired members of Google DeepMind’s Health AI unit and famous AI researchers for companies such as Nando de Freitas. Google has also lost the top AI talent from his competitors Apple.
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Microsoft and Google are one of the companies that focus on creating agents through “multi -modal” AI models, and can analyze and understand the content of audio, video, or images.
Last year, Openai started Chatgpt’s advanced voice mode. This, for example, users were able to interact with AI in a more natural sound. Google’s ASTRA audio -driven AI Agent ASTRA is scheduled to be released in 2025, but Amazon is trying to introduce AI models into voice -driven digital assistant Alexa.
Google Deepmind refused to comment.
