Microsoft is forming a new team that wants to build artificial intelligence that is vastly more capable than humans in certain domains, starting with medical diagnostics, the executive leading the effort explained to Reuters.

Called the MAI Superintelligence Team, the project follows similar efforts by Meta Platforms, Safe Superintelligence Inc., and others that have begun targeting technical leaps while garnering skepticism for their ability to deliver, absent new breakthroughs.

Microsoft plans to invest "a lot of money" in the project as well, said Mustafa Suleyman, the AI chief in charge.

Meta this year offered $100 million signing bonuses to recruit famous AI talent. Suleyman declined to say if such offers or poaching attempts were on the table. However, he said Microsoft AI would c

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