On Thursday, November 7th, local time in the United States, Microsoft announced the formation of a new team focused on cutting-edge artificial intelligence research, personally led by Mustafa Suleiman, CEO of Microsoft’s AI division.
In the official blog post, Suleiman explained the mission of the MAI Super Intelligence team: “We are committed to solving practical and concrete problems, and ensuring that technological development remains stable and controllable. Our goal is not to create elusive super intelligence, but to create practical technology that truly serves humanity
The team will focus on three core directions: firstly, developing affordable AI companions to help improve learning, work, and efficiency; Secondly, it is to build medical super intelligence, achieve expert level capabilities in general diagnosis, and realize accurate medical plan planning and prognosis prediction in clinical environments; Finally, we need to promote breakthroughs in clean energy technology and accelerate the transformation of scientific research results through innovative workflow management.
Healthcare is a key area of focus for Microsoft AI, and it is also one of the industries that Suleiman expects to be the first to be affected by superintelligence. The company recently established a partnership with Harvard Health to provide reliable medical answers for its Copilot and launched a feature to find doctors based on preferences such as location and language. In addition, Microsoft has also developed an AI tool that, in testing, has a disease diagnosis accuracy four times higher than that of the doctor group, while the cost is much lower.
Suleiman said that it is these tools that prove that AI can also demonstrate powerful capabilities in non conversational scenarios. He stated that the AI diagnostic tool is “close” to being ready and marketable.
Faced with investors’ concerns about the lack of returns on huge investments in the AI field, Suleiman emphasized, “We must be clear that the research and development of super intelligence is not a blind investment at any cost
Microsoft’s move coincides with several months after Meta invested billions of dollars to establish the “Meta Super Intelligent Laboratory”. Super intelligence “in the industry usually refers to machine systems that are considered to be more intelligent than the most human.
Suleiman, as a co-founder of DeepMind Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, continued to serve after Google acquired the laboratory in 2014. After leaving Google in 2022, he founded the AI startup company Reflection. Until 2024, Microsoft will bring Suleiman and his core team under its command.
It is worth noting that Microsoft is taking multiple measures to reduce its technological dependence on OpenAI. After completing the integration of the Reflection team, Microsoft also began to introduce technology solutions from companies such as Anthropic created by Google and former OpenAI executives.
Both sides are even competing in multiple fields. OpenAI is building its own data center and establishing partnerships with Microsoft’s competitors Amazon and Oracle. Although Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot still heavily relies on OpenAI, the company is actively building, testing, and releasing self-developed speech, image, and text models.
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