According to IT之家, Microsoft AI scientist John Langford leaves after more than 14 years

According to IT之家, Microsoft AI scientist John Langford, a co-founder of the AI Frontiers lab, has left Microsoft after more than 14 years. He said the key reason was that his research no longer had a clear path to practical application, and new ideas were not taken seriously enough. The report says his roughly 50-person team was folded into Mustafa Suleyman’s Microsoft AI unit in September, but disagreements over research direction and reorganization widened.