Nando de Freitas Announces Departure from Microsoft AI
mmbronstein · x · 2026-08-02
Nando de Freitas announced his last day at Microsoft AI, expressing gratitude to the Bing and Azure teams, as well as CEO Satya Nadella. He specifically noted that Nadella taught the team to care about delivering value to communities, not just about achieving SOTA. This marks the departure of another core talent from Microsoft's AI division.
Related event: Two Key Microsoft AI Executives Nando and Oriol Depart(5 posts)→
More from Companies & People
- 18 reasons why AI transformations fail, even at successful companies — alex_verem · 2026-10-16
- Viral Jio origin story debunked: 'no internet' wasn't an excuse by 2010 — kingslyj · 2026-10-16
- LlamaIndex founder: post-training teams at frontier labs hire Stanford/MIT NLP PhDs at the highest rate — lateinteraction · 2026-10-16
- The 'sci-fi make it till you make it' playbook: Musk pioneered it, Altman copied it — Linahuaa · 2026-10-16
- Ex-DeepMind researcher Michal Valko surfaces with stealth AI startup on stage — misovalko · 2026-10-16
- Ant's Ling Product Lead on Why AGI Is "Inevitable" and Open-Weight Models as Product Strategy — ChinaTalk · 2026-10-16