The End of AI Frontiers: John Langford confirms his Microsoft research group is done
andsoitis · hn · 2026-11-08
John Langford, creator of Vowpal Wabbit, announces on his blog hunch.net that his Microsoft AI Frontiers group has ended and he is leaving the company. As the primary source, this post confirms the group's dissolution and signals continuing headwinds for long-horizon basic AI research inside industry labs.
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