Furu Wei
Distinguished Scientist and Vice President; Chief Scientist of Microsoft Research Asia, leading the GenAI group · Microsoft Research
At a glance. Furu Wei has a current role listed at Microsoft Research. The profile sits among the builders and open-source contributors. Fields listed: Language models, Inference and serving and Training systems. The source lists 1 official page.
Summary
Distinguished Scientist and Chief Scientist of Microsoft Research Asia; senior author of the BitNet papers.
Known for: bitnet.cpp (BitNet inference framework); BitNet b1.58.
Works at
- Microsoft 75 people in the wiki
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