Former Meta executive Jason Taylor is joining Microsoft’s AI supercomputing team. He will take on the role of corporate vice president and deputy CTO to help “build the next set of systems that will push the frontier of AI forward.” Taylor worked at Meta from 2009 to 2022, where he most recently served as the company’s vice president of infrastructure, handling AI, data, and privacy infrastructure, as well as managing the company’s server budgets.
Microsoft and OpenAI need more robust hardware to keep up with rapidly advancing AI systems. There have been reports of Microsoft and OpenAI wanting to build a $100 billion supercomputer, dubbed “Stargate,” to power OpenAI’s models, but Microsoft’s CTO Kevin Scott seems to push back on these rumors.
In March, Microsoft announced that it hired Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman as the CEO of a new consumer AI division that oversees Copilot, Bing, and Edge.