microsoft On Tuesday, the company announced it had hired Mustafa Suleiman, the former co-founder of artificial intelligence startup DeepMind, which Google acquired in 2014, to lead its Copilot AI initiative. Suleiman will become executive vice president and CEO of Microsoft AI, reporting directly to CEO Satya Nadella.
Within Google, DeepMind has become a leader in AI research, with work published in Nature and receiving widespread media attention.Traction caught my eye tesla CEO Elon Musk sought to counter Google’s rise by founding OpenAI, a nonprofit AI lab.
Suleiman left Google’s parent company Alphabet in 2022 to become co-founder and CEO of startup Inflection AI. Inflection co-founder and chief scientist Karen Simonian says he will join Microsoft as chief scientist for Microsoft AI, along with “several” of the startup’s employees, she told Nadella. He writes in the article. microsoft memo.
The new Microsoft AI group will work on the Copilot chatbot that powers Bing, Windows, and other Microsoft products. Consumer AI products and research also fall into this group. Nadella said Mikhail Parakhin, CEO of advertising and web services and head of the Copilot, Bing and Edge development teams, will join the new organization under Suleiman. Misha, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of generative AI, and Virenko as well.
“I have known Mustafa for several years and have admired him as the founder of both DeepMind and Inflection, and as a visionary product maker and builder of pioneering teams pursuing bold missions. “I have great respect for him,” Nadella wrote.
DeepMind told CNBC in 2021 that outside lawyers were investigating concerns from employees about Mr. Suleiman’s management style and that Mr. Suleiman had undergone professional development training.
DeepMind’s other co-founder, Demis Hassabis, will remain at Google DeepMind. Google, one of Microsoft’s biggest competitors in the AI space, is facing a series of issues surrounding its Gemini chatbot and image-generating AI.
Google retired its image generation tool last month after a series of controversies, including historical inaccuracies and controversial responses.
“We have taken this feature offline while we fix it,” Hassabis said last month. “We hope to have it back online soon in the coming weeks.” He added that the product “didn’t work as we intended.”
Inflection AI Said According to LinkedIn data, Microsoft invested in 76 employees last year. That makes it much smaller than OpenAI, which remains a key strategic partner of Microsoft. Recently, Microsoft has been working to give customers access to AI models from other companies, including French startup Mistral.
Inflexion has hired former Mozilla executive Shaun White as its new CEO, according to reports. blog post. Inflection offers a chatbot called Pi, which is similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The company said it will focus on building custom models for commercial customers.
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