Microsoft ropes in DeepMind co-founder Suleyman to run Consumer AI
Microsoft Corp. has named Mustafa Suleyman as head of its consumer artificial intelligence business. Suleyman, who co-founded Google’s DeepMind, will report to Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella and oversee a range of projects, such as integrating an AI Copilot into Windows and adding conversational elements to the Bing search engine. His appointment will streamline Microsoft’s consumer AI work under one leader for the first time.
"As part of this transition, Mikhail Parakhin and his entire team, including Copilot, Bing, and Edge; and Misha Bilenko and the GenAI team will move to report to Mustafa," stated a blog post, sharing an earlier message from Nadella to employees.
Co-founder and Chief Scientist of AI company Inflection, Karén Simonyan will also join the group as Chief Scientist.
As per the blog post, many members from team Inflection have preferred to join Mustafa and Simonyan at Microsoft.
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