Inflection AI, which raised $1.5 billion in funding, will also see its co-founder Karén Simonyan and much of its team join Microsoft. Suleyman's move to Microsoft is seen as a sign of the company's aggressive plans for A.I. technology. Suleyman had co-founded DeepMind in 2010, which was later acquired by Google in 2014 after a breakthrough in A.I. that could play complex games.
Key takeaways:
- Mustafa Suleyman, a co-founder of Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence lab, is leaving his start-up Inflection AI to lead Microsoft’s consumer A.I. business.
- Mr. Suleyman will report directly to Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, and will be responsible for expanding a consumer A.I. business, including Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot, Bing search engine and Edge internet browser.
- One of his Inflection AI co-founders, Karén Simonyan, a leading researcher who came from DeepMind as well, will also join Microsoft, along with much of their team.
- DeepMind, co-founded by Mr. Suleyman, was an ambitious A.I. lab in London that was acquired by Google in 2014 after it made a breakthrough with A.I that could play complex games.