Microsoft is increasing its focus on artificial intelligence by hiring one of the most famous experts in the field. Mustafa Suleiman will relinquish his position as president of artificial intelligence startup Inflection AI and take over a new Microsoft division, the software company announced on Tuesday.
Mostafa Suleiman most recently served as President at Inflection AI.Image: Cornerstone
Consumer-oriented AI products will be grouped under the Microsoft AI umbrella. This includes Copilot assistants as well as AI functionality in Microsoft's Bing search engine and Edge browser.
Suleiman was a co-founder of AI pioneer DeepMind, which was acquired by Google in 2014. He left the internet company in 2022 and was a founder of the startup Inflection AI, which developed the chatbot Pi. Another co-founder, Karen Simonyan, also goes to Microsoft AI and becomes chief scientist there. Meanwhile, Inflection AI wants to focus on developing AI chatbots for businesses in the future. (SDA/AWP/DPA)
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