Microsoft names DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman as CEO of AI unit

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names DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman as CEO of AI unit

Mustafa Suleyman, Co-founder Inflection.ai & DeepMind, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 17th, 2024.

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said Tuesday it has hired Mustafa Suleyman, a co-founder of artificial intelligence startup DeepMind that

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acquired in 2014, to lead Copilot AI initiatives. Suleyman will become an executive vice president and CEO of

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AI, reporting to CEO Satya Nadella.

Inside

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, DeepMind became a leader in AI research, receiving placement for its work in the journal Nature and extensive media attention. The traction caught the eye of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who sought to counter

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’s rise with the creation of a nonprofit AI lab, OpenAI.

Suleyman left

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parent Alphabet in 2022 and became co-founder and CEO of startup Inflection AI. Karén Simonyan, a co-founder of Inflection and its chief scientist, is joining

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as chief scientist for

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AI, alongside several of the startup’s employees, Nadella wrote in a

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The new

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AI group will work on Copilot, which appears in

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, Windows and other

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products. Consumer AI products and research will also fall under the group.

“I’ve known Mustafa for several years and have greatly admired him as a founder of both DeepMind and Inflection, and as a visionary, product maker, and builder of pioneering teams that go after bold missions,” Nadella wrote.

Demis Hassabis, another co-founder of DeepMind, ******** at

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is one of

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’s largest competitors in AI but has faced a barrage of issues surrounding its Gemini chatbot and image-generation AI.

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pulled the image-generation feature tool last month following a string of controversies, including historical inaccuracies and contentious responses.

“We have taken the feature offline while we fix that,” Hassabis said last month. “We are hoping to have that back online very shortly in the next couple of weeks, few weeks.” He added that the product was not “working the way we intended.”

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