Microsoft has announced it will open a new AI hub in London under the recently-formed Microsoft AI as it seeks to further advance consumer AI products and research, inlcuding Copilot.
Writing in an offfcial blog post, Mustafa Suleyman, EVP and CEO of Microsoft AI said the hub will advance state-of-the-art language models and their supporting infrastructure, as well as create tooling for foundation models, collaborating closely with AI teams across Microsoft and its partners, including OpenAI.
The new AI hub will be led by Jordan Hoffmann, an AI scientist and engineer who distibusighed himself in the field at London-based Inflection and DeepMind.
“In the coming weeks and months, we will be posting job openings and actively hiring exceptional individuals who want to work on the most interesting and challenging AI questions of our time. We’re looking for new team members who are driven by impact at scale, and who are passionate innovators eager to contribute to a team culture where continuous learning is the norm,” Suleyman said.
Based in London Paddington, the Microsoft AI London hub adds to Microsoft’s existing presence in the U.K., including the Microsoft Research Cambridge lab, home to some of the foremost researchers in the areas of AI, cloud and productivity.
It also comes on the back of Microsoft’s recently announced £2.5 billion investment to upskill the U.K. workforce for the AI era and build the necessary infrastructure to drive the AI economy.
Suleyman added that the company is committed to bringing bring 20,000 of the most advanced GPUs to the UK by 2026 as part of plans to make a significant, long-term investment in the region.
