Microsoft hires Sam Altman, former CEO of OpenAI
Microsoft is hiring the former CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, and the co-founder of OpenAI, Greg Brockman, to lead an advanced AI research team at the company. - SamMobile
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Microsoft is hiring the former CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, and the co-founder of OpenAI, Greg Brockman, to lead an advanced AI research team at the company. - SamMobile
Once Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal closed, Phil Spencer announced a slew of promotions and changes. One addition to the list shown below is that former Turn 10 studio head Alan Hartman will go from running the home of Forza Motorsport to leading all of Xbox Game Studios. That group covers the developers behind Halo, Gears of War, and Minecraft, as well as Compulsion Games, Double Fine, The Initiative, inXile, Ninja Theory, Obsidian, Playground, Rare, Undead Labs, and World’s Edge. Hopefully, all the shuffling means less crunch and less of whatever happened to Redfall.
On Tuesday, the UK agreed to open a fresh probe of the transaction following an offer from Microsoft to sell cloud rights of current and future Activision games for 15 years
This account of how Microsoft outmaneuvered regulators to shift its fortunes is based on interviews with more than a dozen company executives, advisers and competitor enforcers.
If Microsoft Corp. completes its acquisition of Activision Blizzard in the coming months, the $69 billion deal will go down as one of the biggest comeback stories in the history of mergers.