Microsoft Stop Metaverse Projects, Focus On Development Of AI

Microsoft focuses on developing AI. (Photo; Doc. Widows Central)

JAKARTA US tech giant Microsoft is reportedly leaving the metaverse project and shifting its focus to the development of artificial intelligence (AI) projects. This was proven by the disbandment of the metaverse project team, Industrial Metaverse Core.

According to The Information report, this was announced by the company internally. Industrial Metaverse Core is a company division directed to bring the metaverse to the industrial environment. This group, which was just formed 4 months ago, serves as a bridge to implement the metaverse interface to control power plants, industrial robotics, and transportation networks.

The report also said about 100 team employees had been cut. However, Microsoft said the project would remain supported in the future.

We are implementing our focus on areas of industrial metaverse that are most important to our customers and they will not see any changes in the way they are supported. We look forward to sharing additional information in the future. Microsoft has previously announced 10,000 layoffs as part of the restructuring process in January, "wrote Microsoft, quoted from Bitcoin.com News.

Microsoft plans to divert their resources from the metaverse initiative and focus on AI. Recent reports show that other metaverse initiatives such as Altspacevr and Mixed Reality Tool Kit have also been cut by Microsoft's resources.

Since January, Microsoft has allocated funds for AI start-ups. On January 23, they announced a long-term investment of billions of dollars in Openai, the company behind the development of GPT-3 and Chatgpt. In this partnership, Microsoft also announced that Chatgpt will be included in the Bing search engine and the Edge web browser.

AI will fundamentally change each category of software, starting with the largest category of all searches, said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.