Microsoft Announces New AI Hub in London, Seeking Top Talent for Cutting-Edge Projects

Months after creating a new Microsoft AI Institute to help advance their consumer AI products and research, including Copilot, the tech giant has now announced that it is opening a new AI hub in London, UK. According to the company, the new AI hub will “lead the work to advance state-of-the-art language models and their supporting infrastructure, and collaborate closely with our AI teams across Microsoft and around the world to create world-class tooling for foundational models. Our partners, including OpenAI with.”

The new AI hub will be led by AI scientist and engineer Jordan Hoffman. Before joining Microsoft AI, Hoffman distinguished himself as an AI pioneer at Inflection and DeepMind, based in London.

Hoffman will be joined by a group of Microsoft AI team members based in the company’s London Paddington office.

“The UK has a huge pool of AI talent and expertise, and Microsoft AI plans to make a significant, long-term investment in this area as we begin recruiting the best AI scientists and engineers to this new AI hub,” the company said in a blogpost. In the post, the tech giant also highlighted a recently announced £2.5 billion investment to build the infrastructure to power the AI economy, including upskilling the UK workforce for the AI age and its commitment to bring 20,000 of the most advanced GPUs to the country. By 2026.