Microsoft adds more former Ai2 researchers, bolstering its Superintelligence team

A sign at the Allen Institute for AI headquarters in Seattle, with the Space Needle in the background. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) The wave of departures from the Allen Institute for AI to Microsoft is bigger than previously known: A total of at least 10 former Ai2 staffers and researchers have joined the tech giant, including the core of the Seattle-based institute’s flagship OLMo open-source model effort. In addition to the previously reported Microsoft hires — former Ai2 CEO Ali Farhadi, f