Why they are on the map
Listed as MAI chief scientist source
Decides whether the problem is funded.
How Microsoft AI (MAI) buys data
MAI-Image-1 (Oct 2025) and MAI-Image-2 (Mar 2026) were shaped with feedback from 'photographers, designers, and visual storytellers' and benchmarked on LMArena/Arena.ai (#3 family). Jun 2026 launch cites blind human side-by-sides (MAI-Thinking-1 on 1,276 tasks) and 'clean, licensed, traceable' data without distillation. Several open MAI Superintelligence post-training roles (2026).
MAI Superintelligence division (since Nov 2025) under Suleyman trains MAI models; Copilot split out under Jacob Andreou (Mar 2026). No public human-data org chart.
Known vendors: lmarena
This person was mapped in pass 1. Career, what they have said on the record, interviews, connections, why they matter to us and how to reach them are added in pass 2.