Microsoft’s artificial intelligence head Mustafa Suleyman has poached his former colleagues at Google DeepMind who built its popular podcast-generating feature, as the rival companies race to build lucrative applications from the cutting-edge technology.
Suleyman, a British entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind in 2010, has hired Marco Tagliasacchi and Zalán Borsos, two senior scientists behind “Audio Overviews” which is part of Google’s AI research tool NotebookLM. The feature allows users to transform text into audio that has the style of an engaging conversational podcast.
The pair also worked on Astra, DeepMind’s upcoming AI agent, which can answer questions in real time across video, audio and text.
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