News on Medial

Microsoft hires Google DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman to run its consumer AI

Economic Times · 1y

Microsoft has appointed Mustafa Suleyman as the head of its consumer artificial intelligence (AI) business, hiring most of the staff from his startup Inflection AI. In this role, Suleyman will oversee projects such as integrating AI Copilot into Windows and adding conversational elements to Bing. Microsoft's move aims to compete with Google in the AI market. Suleyman, a co-founder of Google's DeepMind, will report to CEO Satya Nadella and bring Microsoft's consumer AI work under one leader for the first time. The hiring also marks Microsoft's efforts to strengthen its in-house AI capabilities and products outside the relationship with OpenAI.