Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of Google’s DeepMind and Inflection AI, has taken on a new role as the CEO of Microsoft AI. In this capacity, he will oversee various consumer AI products, including Copilot, Bing, and Edge.
In addition to Suleyman, Karén Simonyan, the co-founder of Inflection AI, will assume the role of Chief Scientist at Microsoft AI. Notably, Simonyan is also the brilliant mind behind the creation of AlphaZero.
Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Inflection AI, recently shared exciting news on X. The company he helped establish in 2022 is welcoming a new CEO. Additionally, Suleyman revealed that their API will now be accessible to developers and businesses worldwide, aiming for broader adoption. The journey continues, and the future holds even more possibilities.
A Game-Changing Move: Microsoft Appoints AI Visionary Mustafa Suleyman To Lead Consumer AI Division#MicrosoftAI #Microsoft #MustafaSuleyman #CEO #ConsumerAIhttps://t.co/w3K7lTJSEa
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In a recent communication, Satya Nadella, the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, announced that several team members have joined the Microsoft AI initiative. He emphasized the significance of their strategic partnership with OpenAI, highlighting their commitment to advancing AI innovation. As part of this collaboration, Microsoft will not only develop AI infrastructure, including custom systems and silicon, to support OpenAI’s foundation model roadmap but also create innovative products based on these foundation models.
Microsoft names Mustafa Suleyman as CEO of new team that will handle the company's consumer-facing AI products pic.twitter.com/bxwwvIb4LV
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As per Satya Nadella’s announcement, Mikhail Parakhin and his team, who are currently at the helm of Copilot, Bing, and Edge, will now be reporting to Mustafa Suleyman. Additionally, Misha Bileno and the generative AI team will also fall under Suleyman’s leadership. This strategic alignment aims to foster collaboration and drive innovation across these critical areas of Microsoft AI .
In 2014, Mustafa Suleyman became part of Google when the tech giant acquired DeepMind for a substantial sum of $50 million. During his tenure at Google, he held the position of Vice President of Product Management and Policy for AI.
His contributions to shaping AI strategies within the company were significant, and his journey continued with the co-founding of Inflection AI in 2022, which recently garnered $1.3 billion in funding following the launch of its personal chatbot, Pi
Inflection AI has recently unveiled Inflection-2.5, a formidable model that stands toe-to-toe with the world’s premier large language models (LLMs), including GPT-4 and Gemini. Remarkably, Inflection-2.5 achieves comparable performance to GPT-4, while utilizing a mere 40% of the computational resources during training.
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