On May 15, a number of netizens broke the news on social media platforms Maimai and Xiaohongshu, saying that Microsoft China sent company emails to hundreds of employees, mainly AI team members of the Azure cloud platform, asking if they are willing to transfer to the United States, Australia, Ireland and other countries to work.
This decision will undoubtedly have far-reaching consequences, including career paths, changes in family life, and a new work environment.
In the face of this adjustment, Microsoft provides employees with two options: one is to choose to migrate with the team and embark on a new journey of working across borders; The second is to choose to leave and start a new career exploration.
For those employees who have the courage to choose to move across borders, Microsoft is committed to doing everything in its power to help with the visa issues for their dependents to ensure that they can also have a stable home in a foreign country.
The long journey from China to the U.S. or Australia can be a major life change and a major test for employees.
Employees who feel that such a move is too drastic or have doubts about the new work environment have every right to leave.
Some employees expressed concern about this, believing that this was a means of "disguised layoffs". Although he could choose not to move, he became uneasy about the prospect of staying with the company
As tensions between China and the United States have become more and more tense, many foreign companies have chosen to leave China.
This month, Microsoft officially announced that it will invest US$2.2 billion in Malaysia, mainly to build cloud computing and data centers, and intends to train 200,000 people in artificial intelligence skills. Previously, this advanced R&D and data center was usually located in Singapore, but this time Microsoft's investment is the largest in Malaysia's history
Artificial intelligence is undoubtedly a key enabler of the future, heralding a new technological revolution that will have a more profound impact than any industrial revolution in history
For example, Continental's C919 large passenger aircraft was developed using Huawei's AI-based fluid dynamics calculation model for wind tunnel testing, which significantly reduced the number of tests and accelerated the development process.
In the military field, due to the introduction of artificial intelligence, various types of drones, unmanned ships, and unmanned combat vehicles have begun to appear widely. On the battlefield of the future, the technologically backward side may find itself in the dilemma of using manpower against unmanned systems, which is quite similar to the historical scene of muskets against cold weapons, which is a battle with a huge disparity in power.
Previously, the United States has imposed restrictions on the export of Nvidia GPUs to the mainland, and now there are rumors that Microsoft may also withdraw, and they are trying to restrict the mainland's development in the field of artificial intelligence through various means
But can these initiatives really stop us from making progress?