“No path to real use”: a veteran Microsoft AI scientist quits, says research that could halve AI costs wasn’t even seriously considered

Langford spent over 14 years at Microsoft Research before his roughly 50-person AI Frontiers group was folded into Mustafa Suleyman's Microsoft AI in September. ByteDance has since tested a version of his Full Bandwidth Transformer at a larger scale, and there won't be AI Frontiers internships next year. The post “No…