Mustafa Suleyman, who helped start DeepMind, a famous AI company in the UK, is now leading a new startup called Inflection AI.
DeepMind became well-known and was bought by Google in 2014. This new move by Mr. Suleyman shows that Microsoft is becoming a strong force in AI, while Google seems to be facing challenges in the same field.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Mr Suleyman said he was “excited” to take up his new position, adding that he would be taking several colleagues to Microsoft with him, including “friend and long time collaborator” Karén Simonyan as chief scientist.
He said he would be “leading all consumer AI products and research”, including the Copilot chatbot, Bing and Edge.
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Microsoft boss Satya Nadella described Mr Suleyman as a “visionary, product maker, and builder of pioneering teams that go after bold missions”.
“I am excited for them to contribute their knowledge, talent, and expertise to our consumer AI research and product making,” he added.
Mustafa Suleyman left Google in 2022 and then co-founded Inflection AI, which has become a big player in the generative AI race.
They got $1.3 billion from Microsoft and Nvidia last June. Now, he’s joined Microsoft, which shows how respected he is in AI.
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Microsoft has been putting a lot of money into working with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.
They’ve also invested in a French tech startup called Mistral AI. Microsoft says they’ll keep building AI stuff and helping OpenAI with their big model plans.
Google, on the other hand, is having some trouble with their new AI tool called Gemini. It had problems representing white people correctly and even changed the race of some historical figures who were white.
Google has apologised for “inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions”, saying its attempts at creating a “wide range” of results missed the mark.
