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CTOnews.com, June 19, in response to news that the top AI scientists of Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), a research organization of Microsoft, have moved from China to Vancouver, Microsoft Research Asia responded to titanium media on the morning of June 19 that Microsoft would build a new laboratory in Vancouver, Canada, confirming that Microsoft's AI research experts in China would be included in the new laboratory. At the same time, MSRA earlier denied that it had left China.

"We are building a new laboratory in Vancouver, which is in line with Microsoft Research Asia's organizational structure and aims to better engage with the Vancouver engineering team," MSRA said in a statement. "the lab will be made up of Microsoft Research personnel from all over the world, including China."

According to public data, Microsoft Research Asia, founded in 1998, is a research organization set up by Microsoft in the Asia-Pacific region and the only frontier research organization of Microsoft in China. It is committed to promoting the development of cutting-edge technology in the whole field of computer science, rapidly transforming the latest research results into Microsoft's key products, and focusing on the research of the next generation of revolutionary technologies. The first dean of Microsoft Research Asia was Kaifu Lee. In the 25 years since its establishment, Microsoft Research Asia has given birth to many top AI scientists and entrepreneurs. The alumni list includes Wang Jian, founder of Aliyun, Wang Haifeng, CTO of Baidu, Xu Li, CEO of Shangtang Technology, Lin Bin, co-founder of Xiaomi, CEO Yinqi, etc.

So far, Microsoft has 9000 employees in China, more than 80% of whom are software engineers or engaged in research and development, and announced in mid-June that it would recruit more than 1000 more scientists in the AI field.

According to data released by Levels.fyi, Staff Engineer, a top OpenAI scientist, currently earns about $1.3 million (CTOnews.com Note: about 9.269 million yuan), more than 10 times the annual salary of the average AI architect at Microsoft.

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