Microsoft’s artificial intelligence group has been growing under Mustafa Suleyman, a co-founder of the DeepMind research lab Google acquired years ago.

Microsoft has hired around two dozen engineers from Google DeepMind to strengthen its AI team and accelerate Copilot development, intensifying the talent war among tech giants.

Microsoft has recently recruited approximately two dozen employees from Google's DeepMind AI research lab, bolstering its Copilot project.

Chain-of-thought monitorability could improve generative AI safety by assessing how models come to their conclusions and spotting the "intent to misbehave.”

Amazon is expanding further into the wearable tech space with the acquisition of San Francisco-based startup Bee. The company develops wearable AI devices—similar in function to Amazon’s Alexa, but designed to be worn like a Fitbit.

Microsoft has hired 24 former DeepMind employees, including Amar Subramanya as its new AI VP, in a major move to strengthen its consumer AI ambitions under Mustafa Suleyman's leadership.

CASP, the protein structure prediction contest that launched DeepMind’s Alphafold to international fame and a Nobel Prize, has secured temporary funding to continue operations. The organization’s current funding — from the National Institutes of Health — is set to run out in early August.

The authors express their deepest appreciation to the Google DeepMind Robotics team and in particular David B. D’Ambrosio, Saminda Abeyruwan, Laura Graesser, Atil Iscen, Alex Bewley and Krista Reymann for their invaluable contributions to the development and refinement of this work.