Suleyman's startup, Inflection AI, will cease operations of its AI chatbot, Pi, and instead sell AI software to businesses. Inflection's co-founder, Karén Simonyan, will join Microsoft's AI division as Chief Scientist, along with several unnamed teammates. Microsoft will continue to provide Inflection with the computing power to build its AI models. The move intensifies Microsoft's competition with Google, from which Suleyman departed in 2022.
Key takeaways:
- Mustafa Suleyman, cofounder of Google's DeepMind, has been appointed as the CEO of Microsoft's AI division.
- Suleyman will oversee Microsoft consumer products like Copilot, Bing, and Edge, and will report directly to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
- Microsoft's hire of Suleyman is part of an effort to bolster its strategy outside its ongoing partnership with OpenAI.
- After leaving Google, Suleyman has been running his startup, Inflection AI, since February 2022. Inflection will now stop running its AI chatbot, Pi, and instead sell AI software to businesses.