{"id":556717,"date":"2026-03-24T04:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/556717\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T04:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:18:09","slug":"microsoft-hires-ali-farhadi-to-work-with-mustafa-suleyman-on-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/556717\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Hires Ali Farhadi to Work With Mustafa Suleyman on AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has hired recent former Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence CEO Ali Farhadi.<\/p>\n<p>Farhadi will work under <a target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/microsoft-forms-mai-superintelligence-team-humanist-2025-11\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\">Mustafa Suleyman<\/a>, who recently started an in-house AI team at the company, according to two people familiar with the hiring. Farhadi is listed in Microsoft&#8217;s internal system with the title corporate vice president, one of the people said.<\/p>\n<p>After Business Insider requested a comment from Microsoft, Suleyman posted about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7441971584610803712\/?originTrackingId=h80z%2F%2FAOG1VIOENsxhrkuQ%3D%3D\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;click_type&quot;:&quot;other&quot;,&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;outbound_click&quot;}\" rel=\" nofollow noopener\">Farhadi&#8217;s hiring on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Farhadi <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2026\/allen-institute-for-ai-ceo-ali-farhadi-steps-down-as-nonprofit-navigates-shifting-ai-landscape\/\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;click_type&quot;:&quot;other&quot;,&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;outbound_click&quot;}\" rel=\" nofollow noopener\">stepped down earlier this month<\/a> as Ai2 CEO, where he worked to make AI <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ai-power-list#ali-farhadi\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">research open and accessible to the public<\/a>. He&#8217;s was a cofounder of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/Xnor.ai\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;click_type&quot;:&quot;other&quot;,&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;outbound_click&quot;}\" rel=\" nofollow noopener\">Xnor.ai<\/a>, an on-device AI model startup that <a target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-reportedly-buys-xnor-ai-200-million-2020-1\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\">Apple acquired for $200 million.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Suleyman formed the <a target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/microsoft-forms-mai-superintelligence-team-humanist-2025-11\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\">team<\/a> at Microsoft in November focused on training &#8220;frontier models of all scales with our own data and compute at the state-of-the-art level&#8221; to make the company &#8220;self-sufficient in AI,&#8221; <a target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/microsoft-ai-ceo-mustafa-suleyman-agi-evolving-openai-relationship-2025-11\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\">he told Business Insider at the time<\/a>.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/microsoft-combines-copilot-teams-and-mustafa-suleyman-superintelligence-memos-2026-3\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">recently moved Suleyman<\/a> to focus all of his &#8220;energy on our Superintelligence efforts and be able to deliver world class models for Microsoft over the next five years,&#8221; according to an email to employees announcing the changes.<\/p>\n<p>Have a tip? Contact this reporter via email at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mailto:astewart@businessinsider.com\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;click_type&quot;:&quot;other&quot;,&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;outbound_click&quot;}\" rel=\" nofollow noopener\">astewart@businessinsider.com<\/a> or Signal at +1-425-344-8242. 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