Microsoft hires, Google Deep Mind Co-founder to Run Consumer AI

Recently, Microsoft announced to hiring of Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of high-profile AI startup Inflection AI. Mustafa will now report to chief executive Nadella. He will join Microsoft as the head of its consumer artificial intelligence business, along with most of its staff.

Nadella wrote in his blog post “Several members of the Inflection team have chosen to join Mustafa and Karen at Microsoft”. “They include some of the most accomplished AI engineers, researchers, and builders in the world. They have designed, led, launched, and co-authored many of the most important contributions in advancing AI over the last five years.”

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Mustafa and Karén Simonyan will now focus on advancing Copilot and our other consumer AI products and research in Microsoft along with their expert team. Many of their team members are joining Microsoft or we can say most of their team members are joining.

“Mustafa will be EVP and CEO, of Microsoft AI, and join the senior leadership team (SLT), reporting to me. Karén is joining this group as Chief Scientist, reporting to Mustafa. 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.”- Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer, shared with Microsoft employees.

History of Inflection AI:

Inflection AI is not new to Microsoft, as it raised funding of $1.3B last year, in which Microsoft was the biggest investor. Mr Suleyman has also co-founded Deepmind back in 2010. But after its breakthrough success in AI, it was later acquired by Google in 2014. After working with the Google Deepmind team he left Google and co-founded Inflection AI along with Karén Simonyan.

Inflection has now announced to hiring of Sean White, as the new CEO of Inflection. Sean has previously worked at Mozilla, the maker of the popular Firefox web browser.

Nadella said today “The firm — and the world — is only in its second year of the AI platform shift and Microsoft “must ensure we have the capability and capacity to boldly innovate.”