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Microsoft launches 'superintelligence' team

By Jeffrey Dastin

Nov 7 2025 2:35AM

Targets medical diagnosis in first instance.

Microsoft launches 'superintelligence' team

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 told Reuters. Called the MAI Superintelligence Team, the project follows similar efforts by ...

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