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Indian Express
2 days ago
- Business
- Indian Express
Microsoft targets Meta's AI top talent with multimillion-dollar offers: Report
Microsoft may be looking to one-up Meta by poaching AI talent that the social media giant itself lured from other companies. The Windows maker has put together a list of the top engineers and AI researchers at Meta, according to a report by Business Insider. Microsoft is also aiming to match Meta's compensation for top AI talent as part of its new process to make its offers more competitive. This process includes directing recruiters to designate suitable candidates as 'critical AI talent' so that the company's executives can more quickly respond with a top offer to those candidates, as per the report. These offers amount to millions of dollars, including multimillion-dollar on-hire bonuses. Engineers and researchers already working at Microsoft have maximum compensation packages of $408,000 as well as $1.9 million in on-hire stock awards, $1.5 million in annual stock awards, and annual cash bonuses as high as 90 per cent, as per the company's purported internal pay guidelines. Microsoft's push to recruit top AI talent signals that it is willing to reshuffle its workforce to stay ahead in the AI race, even if it means stretching beyond its usual pay limits to outpace rivals. The move also comes against the backdrop of Microsoft's plans to axe thousands of jobs in what has shaped up to be its largest round of job cuts in a year. There are two AI teams at Microsoft, namely: Microsoft AI led by former Google DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman and CoreAI, another team led by former Meta engineering head Jay Parikh. Microsoft's internal spreadsheets reportedly show that it appears to be targeting employees working at Meta's Reality Labs, GenAI Infrastructure, and Meta AI Research divisions. Meta itself has been making nine-figure offers to lure top AI talent from other companies such as OpenAI. Shengjia Zhao, one of the creators of ChatGPT, was recently named as the chief scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). Mark Chen, OpenAI's research officer, has previously likened Meta's aggressive poaching spree to a home invasion. Meanwhile, OpenAI recently announced a 'special one-time award' to its AI researchers and engineers across several departments, including applied engineering, scaling, and safety. The bonuses were announced a day before the ChatGPT maker unveiled GPT-5, its latest and most advanced large language model (LLM). More than 1,000 OpenAI employees are eligible for the bonus, according to a report by The Verge. The ChatGPT-maker is currently valued at $300 billion.
Indian Express
3 days ago
- Business
- Indian Express
GitHub CEO steps down as Microsoft integrates platform into CoreAI division amid rising competition in the AI coding market
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced Tuesday that he plans to step down later this year, and Microsoft does not intend to search for a replacement. Dohmke is leaving the Microsoft-owned platform to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors. 'With more than 1B repos and forks, and over 150 million developers, GitHub has never been stronger than it is today,' Dohmke wrote in a blog post. 'We have seen more open-source projects with more contributions every year. AI projects have doubled in the last year alone. And our presence in companies of any size is unmatched in the market.' GitHub, which Microsoft acquired in 2018 for $7.5 billion, has largely operated independently. However, with Dohmke stepping down, GitHub will now operate as part of Microsoft's CoreAI group. In a separate memo, Microsoft CoreAI head Jay Parikh outlined a new structure in which GitHub leadership will report to several Microsoft executives, according to Axios. Julia Liuson, head of Microsoft's Developer Division, will oversee GitHub's revenue, engineering, and support. Earlier this year, Microsoft formed the CoreAI group, led by Jay Parikh, Facebook's former head of engineering, whom CEO Satya Nadella added to Microsoft's senior leadership team in October. Dohmke has been the CEO of GitHub since 2021. He joined Microsoft in 2015 through the acquisition of his previous startup, HockeyApp. After Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018, Dohmke became GitHub's Chief Product Officer in mid-2021, and a few months later, he succeeded Nat Friedman as CEO. In a memo to employees, Dohmke said he's leaving GitHub to 'become a founder again,' though he will remain at Microsoft until the end of the year 'to help guide the transition.' Dohmke is leaving GitHub at a time when Microsoft is investing billions of dollars in high-profile artificial intelligence projects. GitHub is one of the most popular platforms for developers to share code and collaborate on projects. It's free, easy to use, and has become central to the open-source software movement. The platform is important to Microsoft's overall strategy, as it provides direct access to developers, crucial to the success of Windows, Azure, and its expanding suite of AI tools. In fact, GitHub is more important than ever due to the boom in generative artificial intelligence. Microsoft now faces stiff competition from companies like Google, Cursor, Replit, and Windsurf in the race to build leading AI tools for programmers, especially amid the rise of 'vibe coding,' where programs are written with just a few words of human direction. Under Dohmke's leadership, GitHub has doubled its user base. Over the years, the Microsoft-owned unit launched GitHub Copilot, an assistant that suggests code for developers to add to their projects. In January, GitHub introduced a Copilot artificial intelligence agent capable of handling specific programming tasks and notifying users once the work is completed. GitHub generates over $2 billion in annualised revenue as of last summer. Anuj Bhatia is a personal technology writer at who has been covering smartphones, personal computers, gaming, apps, and lifestyle tech actively since 2011. He specialises in writing longer-form feature articles and explainers on trending tech topics. His unique interests encompass delving into vintage tech, retro gaming and composing in-depth narratives on the intersection of history, technology, and popular culture. He covers major international tech conferences and product launches from the world's biggest and most valuable tech brands including Apple, Google and others. At the same time, he also extensively covers indie, home-grown tech startups. Prior to joining The Indian Express in late 2016, he served as a senior tech writer at My Mobile magazine and previously held roles as a reviewer and tech writer at Gizbot. Anuj holds a postgraduate degree from Banaras Hindu University. You can find Anuj on Linkedin. Email: ... Read More
The Star
3 days ago
- Business
- The Star
GitHub CEO to leave Microsoft amid steep AI competition
GitHub will become part of Microsoft's CoreAI team, which is led by Jay Parikh, an executive hired earlier this year. — Photo by Mohammad Rahmani on Unsplash The chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp.'s GitHub is stepping down, a major change for a coding platform grappling with increasing competition over AI tools for programmers. Thomas Dohmke said Monday that he was leaving the unit he has led for almost four years. In a blog post, he expressed thanks to employees, dubbed Hubbers, for "the ride of a lifetime.' Dohmke will remain at GitHub through the end of this year and then leave to become a founder, he said. GitHub was early to artificial intelligence technology capable of automating parts of software development. Now, a growing number of companies, including Alphabet Inc.'s Google, Anthropic and Cursor maker Anysphere, are releasing rival AI products. OpenAI, backed by Microsoft, debuted a new model this month that it said performs better at coding tasks. GitHub will become part of Microsoft's CoreAI team, which is led by Jay Parikh, an executive hired earlier this year. Acquired by Microsoft in 2018 for US$7.5bil (RM31.7bil), GitHub is widely used for programming and was the first Microsoft division to deploy an AI Copilot, a category of assistants the software giant is betting on for future revenue growth. In a blog post last week, Dohmke encouraged coders to embrace rapid disruptions coming to the profession due to AI. "The software developer role is set on a path of significant change,' he wrote. – Bloomberg
Time of India
4 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke resigns: ‘I've decided to leave……to become..'
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned from his position, triggering a major restructuring for the company. After nearly four years at the helm, Dohmke is stepping down signaling his departure from both GitHub and Microsoft. Following his resignation, Microsoft is moving GitHub directly into its new CoreAI team. Reportedly, Microsoft will not replace Dohmke's CEO role, effectively ending GitHub's status as a separate entity and integrating it fully into its operations. 'Still, after all this time, my startup roots have begun tugging on me and I've decided to leave GitHub to become a founder again,' Dohmke said. 'I'll be staying through the end of 2025 to help guide the transition and am leaving with a deep sense of pride in everything we've built as a remote-first organization spread around the world,' he added. GitHub to merge in Microsoft AI engineering team led by Jay Parikh Dohmke mentioned that GitHub will now be a part of Microsoft's CoreAI team – a new engineering group led by former Meta executive Jay Parikh. It is focused on building AI platforms and tools for both internal use and for Microsoft's customers. The division includes Microsoft's platform, tools, and Dev Div teams. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Sheila révèle son compagnon : un visage bien connu ! Weight Loss Groove Undo According to Dohmke, GitHub Copilot 'is the leader of the most successful and thriving market in the age of AI, with over 20 million users and counting.' 'In just the last year, GitHub Copilot became the first multi-model solution at Microsoft, in partnership with Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. We enabled Copilot Free for millions and introduced the synchronous agent mode in VS Code as well as the asynchronous coding agent native to GitHub,' he added. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Dohmke thanked Satya Nadella 'for the ride of a lifetime'. 'Thank you to @satyanadella, Julia Liuson, so many countless people, and most importantly, thank you to all Hubbers for the ride of a lifetime,' he said. Lava Blaze Dragon 5G: Clean, Simple and Surprising AI Masterclass for Students. Upskill Young Ones Today!– Join Now
Business Insider
24-07-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Internal Microsoft memo details plans for major update to its flagship coding service, as AI-powered rivals gain ground
Microsoft is working on a major upgrade of its flagship software-development product Visual Studio, a sign the tech giant is responding to intense competition from new AI coding tools, according to an internal memo viewed by Business Insider. Microsoft has a free, open-source code editor called VS Code that rivals such as Amazon and Windsurf have used to build competing developer tools. Visual Studio, meanwhile, is a paid Integrated Development Environment, or IDE, that offers more features to help developers write, debug, edit, and deploy code — and manage entire projects. Jay Parikh is the relatively new executive who leads Microsoft's CoreAI organization, which oversees developer tools including Visual Studio. Parikh emailed his team in April, describing plans for the "next major release" of the product, which he called "Visual Studio 18." Business Insider viewed a copy of the memo. The last major upgrade to Visual Studio was released in 2021. Microsoft has been working on this new version for a while already. The company started "early dogfooding," where tech employees test their own products, to prepare for a general release, according to the memo. Parikh didn't disclose a timeline for the release, but a Microsoft blog earlier this year dropped a hint. "Stay tuned for more details later this summer about what's coming next for Visual Studio," the post stated. The new Visual Studio will be packed with AI features, partly in response to rival services that are more AI-focused, according to a person familiar with the plans. Please help BI improve our Business, Tech, and Innovation coverage by sharing a bit about your role — it will help us tailor content that matters most to people like you. Continue By providing this information, you agree that Business Insider may use this data to improve your site experience and for targeted advertising. By continuing you agree that you accept the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Microsoft's AI coding assistant, GitHub Copilot, recently lost share in a key part of the developer market to Cursor, according to data cited in recent note from Barclays. Amazon just launched its own IDE called Kiro. Business Insider reported earlier this year that Amazon designed Kiro to tap into AI agents to analyze user prompts and existing data, generating code in "near real-time." Microsoft said it provides regular updates to the current version of Visual Studio, which is version 17 (not version 18 that Parikh described in his memo). For example, in July, the company rolled out a revamp, 17.14.9, that added new AI features, such as support for Anthropic's latest models and updates to Model Context Protocol, or MCP, an industry standard that helps models connect with external data sources.
