Berichten zufolge schließt Microsoft die Industrial Metaverse Focused Group

Der Softwareriese Microsoft schließt eine seiner bedeutendsten Gruppen, die sich der Entwicklung und Förderung des industriellen Metaversums widmet. Berichten zufolge, Das Unternehmen hat seine gesamte Industrial Metaverse Core-Gruppe aufgelöst, welches sich zusammensetzte aus 100 Mitarbeiter, as part of the 10,000-person layoff rounds announced in January.

Microsoft Reportedly Terminating Industrial Metaverse Group

Microsoft, the Washington-based software giant, seems to be abandoning the metaverse in favor of other initiatives. According to Berichte from The Information, the company announced internally the disbandment of the Industrial Metaverse Core group, a division of the company directed to bring the metaverse to industrial environments.

The group, which was formed just 4 months ago, served as a bridge for the implementation of metaverse interfaces to control electrical power plants, industrial robotics, and transportation networks. The division was part of the efforts directed to bring the metaverse to industrial environments by bridging software to this initiative.

Der 100 employees that were part of the group were laid off. jedoch, Microsoft has said that the products built by the group will continue to be supported in the future. Das Unternehmen angegeben:

We are applying our focus to the areas of the industrial metaverse that matter most to our customers and they will see no change in how they are supported. We look forward to sharing additional information in the future.

Microsoft had previously announced a round of 10,000 layoffs as part of a restructuring process in January.

Out With the Metaverse, in With AI

The recent turn of events suggests that Microsoft is taking part of its resources from metaverse initiatives to put into other areas like artificial intelligence (KI). Earlier Berichte indicate that other metaverse projects have been affected by Microsoft’s cuts, with employees from metaverse platform Altspacevr — which announced its closure by March —and the Mixed Reality Tool Kit, also being laid off.

Microsoft has been putting funds behind AI-based startups since January. Es ist Jan. 23, das Unternehmen offengelegt a “multi-year, multibillion-dollar investment” in Openai, the company behind the development of GPT-3, and its Chatgpt interface. Ebenfalls, as part of this partnership, Microsoft recently angekündigt the inclusion of Chatgpt in Bing, its search engine, and also as part of Edge, its web browser.

To accompany this move, Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, angegeben:

AI will fundamentally change every software category, starting with the largest category of all – search.

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Sergio Göschenko

Sergio ist ein Kryptowährungsjournalist mit Sitz in Venezuela. Er beschreibt sich selbst als spät im Spiel, Eintritt in die Kryptosphäre, als der Preisanstieg im Dezember stattfand 2017. Einen Hintergrund in Computertechnik haben, lebt in Venezuela, und auf sozialer Ebene vom Kryptowährungsboom betroffen zu sein, Er bietet eine andere Sichtweise auf den Krypto-Erfolg und wie er denjenigen hilft, die kein Bankkonto haben und unterversorgt sind.

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