Google DeepMind co-founder joins Microsoft as CEO of its new AI division

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Microsoft has hired Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman. In a station connected X, Suleyman announced that he’s joining Microsoft arsenic the CEO of a caller squad that handles the company’s consumer-facing AI products, including Copilot, Bing, and Edge.

Suleyman volition besides service arsenic enforcement vice president of Microsoft AI and articulation the company’s elder enactment squad that reports straight to CEO Satya Nadella. In summation to hiring Suleyman, Microsoft is besides bringing connected immoderate of Inflection AI’s employees, including co-founder Karén Simonyan, who volition service arsenic the main idiosyncratic of the user AI group. Kevin Scott volition stay arsenic Microsoft’s main exertion serviceman and enforcement vice president of AI.

Suleyman co-founded DeepMind successful 2010, which Google aboriginal acquired successful 2014. He aboriginal served arsenic Google’s vice president of AI merchandise absorption and AI argumentation earlier leaving the institution successful 2022 to co-found the startup Inflection AI.

“I’ve known Mustafa for respective years and person greatly admired him arsenic a laminitis of some DeepMind and Inflection, and arsenic a visionary, merchandise maker, and builder of pioneering teams that spell aft bold missions,” Nadella says successful a memo to employees published by Microsoft. “We person a existent changeable to physique exertion that was erstwhile thought intolerable and that lives up to our ngo to guarantee the benefits of AI scope each idiosyncratic and enactment connected the planet, safely and responsibly.”

Microsoft has poured billions into its concern with OpenAI and precocious struck a woody with AI startup Mistral. The enactment of a caller AI squad doesn’t mean Microsoft has forgotten astir these partnerships. Microsoft says it “will proceed to physique AI infrastructure inclusive of customized systems and silicon enactment successful enactment of OpenAI’s instauration exemplary roadmap,” arsenic good arsenic “build products connected apical of their instauration models.”

After rolling retired Bing Chat (now Copilot) past year, Microsoft has since brought its AI adjunct to its Office products, Windows 11, and Edge. Microsoft is besides acceptable to hold a peculiar AI event earlier the commencement of its Build league successful May, wherever it volition apt stock much details astir its AI ambitions successful Windows and its Surface devices.