On Tuesday, Microsoft announced the hiring of Mustafa Suleyman, a co-founder of DeepMind, an artificial intelligence startup acquired by Google in 2014. Suleyman will assume the role of Executive Vice President and CEO of Microsoft AI, reporting directly to CEO Satya Nadella.
DeepMind, while at Google, rose to prominence in AI research, earning recognition in the journal Nature and widespread media coverage. This caught the attention of Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, who countered Google’s advances by founding the nonprofit AI lab, OpenAI.
In 2022, Mustafa Suleyman departed Google’s parent company Alphabet to co-found and lead the startup Inflection AI. Karén Simonyan, another co-founder of Inflection and its chief scientist, is transitioning to Microsoft as the chief scientist for Microsoft AI, along with several other employees from the startup, as mentioned in a memo from Microsoft’s CEO, Nadella.
The newly formed Microsoft AI group will focus on enhancing Copilot, which is integrated into Bing, Windows, and other Microsoft products. Additionally, consumer AI products and research will be within the group’s purview.
Nadella expressed admiration for Suleyman’s entrepreneurial spirit and track record as a founder of DeepMind and Inflection, highlighting his visionary leadership and ability to assemble pioneering teams to tackle ambitious missions.
Meanwhile, Demis Hassabis, another co-founder of DeepMind, remains with the company. Despite Google being a major competitor in AI, it has faced challenges with its Gemini chatbot and image-generation AI, prompting the removal of the image-generation feature due to various controversies, including historical inaccuracies and contentious responses.
Hassabis mentioned last month that they’ve taken the feature offline for fixes and hope to reinstate it shortly, acknowledging that it wasn’t functioning as intended.
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