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Karén Simonyan and the Small Square That Helped AI See
He helped teach machines to see, then helped build the systems meant to talk back. From Oxford’s VGG network to Microsoft AI, Karén Simonyan’s career follows a question that keeps getting bigger: what should a model learn next?
Mustafa Suleyman and the Question Behind the Machine
The Microsoft AI chief began by listening to people one call at a time. Now he is trying to decide what billions of conversations with machines should be allowed to become.
Andréa Mallard Keeps Choosing the Bigger Adventure
A stranded would-be correspondent learned to interview Paris over a pint, then carried that curiosity through IDEO, Pinterest and Microsoft AI. Her career is a case study in choosing the less obvious door - and knowing when a title is only one part of a life.
Microsoft AI Bought a Startup’s Brain. Now It Has to Build Its Own.
Microsoft spent about $650 million to import a ready-made AI team, then gave it Copilot, Bing and an enormous distribution machine. Two years later, the wager is no longer about catching ChatGPT - it is about whether Microsoft can turn borrowed momentum into models, products and trust of its own.