Mustafa Suleiman is joining Microsoft to lead its artificial intelligence division, which develops consumer-facing products such as Copilot, Bing and Edge.
Suleiman will also serve as executive vice president of Microsoft AI and join the company's senior leadership team, which reports directly to CEO Satya Nadella.
I’m excited to announce that today I’m joining @Microsoft as CEO of Microsoft AI. I’ll be leading all consumer AI products and research, including Copilot, Bing and Edge. My friend and longtime collaborator Karén Simonyan will be Chief Scientist, and several of our amazing…
— Mustafa Suleyman (@mustafasuleyman) March 19, 2024
According to The Verge, Mustafa and his partners founded the artificial intelligence laboratory DeepMind in 2010 and 4 years later it was acquired by Google. In 2019, Suleiman was placed on leave due to controversy surrounding some of the projects he led. The Wall Street Journal later wrote that Google and DeepMind were investigating him over complaints of bullying against staff.
Google soon announced that it had promoted Suleiman to the position of vice president of AI product management and AI policy. Mustafa eventually left the company in 2022 to co-found Inflection AI (in June, chatbot startup Pi raised $1.3 billion in one of the largest AI funding rounds in Silicon Valley and was valued at $4 at the time billion).
Microsoft is also bringing on some other Inflection AI employees, including co-founder Karen Simonyan, who will serve as the division's chief scientist.
“I have known Mustafa for several years and greatly admire him as the founder of DeepMind and Inflection, and as a visionary, product maker, and builder of teams of pioneers who are pursuing bold missions,” Nadella said in a letter to employees. “We have a real chance of creating technology that was once thought impossible and that lives up to our mission to ensure that the benefits of artificial intelligence reach every person and organization on the planet safely and responsibly.”
Microsoft has invested billions in a partnership with OpenAI, and recently struck an agreement with AI startup Mistral. After launching Bing Chat (now Copilot) last year, Microsoft added its AI assistant to its Office, Windows 11, and Edge products. The company has also planned a special AI event ahead of its Build conference in May, where it will likely share more details about its AI ambitions in Windows and Surface devices.
Google is slowly catching up with Microsoft in the AI race and in February released its own answer to ChatGPT, the large Gemini language model. While the rollout hasn't been perfect (the image generation had to be paused due to complaints about inaccurate representation of races), the company is currently in talks with Apple to integrate its own AI technology into the iPhone.
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