Microsoft on Monday stated that its vice chairman of GenAI analysis, Sebastien Bubeck, is leaving the corporate to affix ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.

It was unclear what function Bubeck would assume on the Microsoft-backed AI startup.

“Sebastian has determined to depart Microsoft to additional his work towards creating AGI,” a spokesperson for Microsoft stated, including that the corporate appears ahead to persevering with their relationship by means of Bubeck’s work with OpenAI.

Bubeck didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for affirmation.

Most of Bubeck’s coauthors who labored on a analysis paper on Microsoft’s Phi LLMs, that are smaller than conventional giant language fashions (LLMs), stay at Microsoft and plan to proceed creating the fashions, based on the Info, which first reported his departure.

The event follows a collection of exits from OpenAI, together with that of longtime chief expertise officer Mira Murati in September.

CEO Sam Altman has denied any hyperlink between the departures and a deliberate restructuring of the corporate.

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