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On November 6, 2025, Microsoft announced the formation of the MAI Superintelligence Team, a dedicated unit aimed at developing artificial intelligence vastly superior to humans in specific domains, beginning with medical diagnostics. Led by Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman—a DeepMind co-founder—the initiative prioritizes "humanist superintelligence," focusing on solvable real-world problems rather than uncontrolled general AI.
The team, staffed with existing researchers and chief scientist Karen Simonyan, will recruit top talent to accelerate breakthroughs. Suleyman forecasts "medical superintelligence" achievable in 2-3 years, enabling earlier disease detection and cost-effective care. This builds on Microsoft's June 2025 MAI-DxO orchestrator, which diagnosed complex New England Journal of Medicine cases at 85% accuracy—over four times better than human physicians—while optimizing tests and costs.
Future applications may extend to battery storage and molecule design, like AlphaFold-inspired advancements. Skeptics question timelines absent major breakthroughs, but Microsoft views this as ethical AI augmenting humanity, potentially revolutionizing global healthcare access and outcomes.
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On November 6, 2025, Microsoft announced the formation of the MAI Superintelligence Team, a dedicated unit aimed at developing artificial intelligence vastly superior to humans in specific domains, beginning with medical diagnostics. Led by Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman—a DeepMind co-founder—the initiative prioritizes "humanist superintelligence," focusing on solvable real-world problems rather than uncontrolled general AI.
The team, staffed with existing researchers and chief scientist Karen Simonyan, will recruit top talent to accelerate breakthroughs. Suleyman forecasts "medical superintelligence" achievable in 2-3 years, enabling earlier disease detection and cost-effective care. This builds on Microsoft's June 2025 MAI-DxO orchestrator, which diagnosed complex New England Journal of Medicine cases at 85% accuracy—over four times better than human physicians—while optimizing tests and costs.
Future applications may extend to battery storage and molecule design, like AlphaFold-inspired advancements. Skeptics question timelines absent major breakthroughs, but Microsoft views this as ethical AI augmenting humanity, potentially revolutionizing global healthcare access and outcomes.
Microsoft launches 'superintelligence' team targeting medical diagnosis to start
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.
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