Tech Moves: Microsoft AI exec joins Niantic Spatial; Allen fund names first investment chief; Zillow AI leader heads to Stripe

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He joined from Microsoft AI, where he was corporate vice president of product on the Superintelligence team and helped build and launch Microsoft’s first frontier foundation models. Plus, moves at Scowtt, ThriftBooks, Jack in the Box, Fortive, the American Astronomical Society and Yoodli.

(Photo courtesy Niantic Spatial) — Niantic Spatial hired Dave Citron as chief product officer. San Francisco-based Niantic Spatial, spun out of Pokémon Go maker Niantic , builds spatial AI models and services, including a visual positioning system trained in part on images crowdsourced from Pokémon Go players.

The company has an engineering team in Bellevue, Wash. The Seattle-area executive was previously senior director of product for the Gemini app at Google DeepMind and worked on Google Meet and Google Duo.