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Microsoft has hired Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of Google’s DeepMind and chief executive of artificial intelligence start-up Inflection, to run a new consumer AI unit.
Suleyman, a British entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind in London in 2010, will report to Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella, the company announced on Tuesday. He will launch a division of Microsoft that brings consumer facing products including Microsoft’s Copilot, Bing, Edge and GenAI under one team called Microsoft AI.
Nadella said in a statement on Tuesday: “I’ve known Mustafa for several years and have greatly admired him as a founder of both DeepMind and Inflection, and as a visionary, product maker and builder of pioneering teams that go after bold missions.”
Microsoft will also hire most of Inflection’s staff, including Karén Simonyan, co-founder and chief scientist of Inflection, who will be chief scientist of the AI group, reporting to Suleyman.
Inflection, a rival to Microsoft-backed ChatGPT developer OpenAI, will halt work on its consumer chatbot, Pi, and instead move to sell enterprise AI software to businesses, according to a statement on its website.
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