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H cofounder Laurent Sifre joins Microsoft as AI researcher
Laurent Sifre, cofounder of H (an AI research org), has joined Microsoft. This signals Microsoft's continued poaching of frontier AI talent to bolster internal research and model capability.
WHY IT MATTERS
Microsoft-OpenAI parity strategy accelerates; banks standardized on Azure + GPT may face competitive pressure as Microsoft deploys native frontier models.
Source: Sifted · 2026-09-04