DeepMindCo-FounderMustafa Suleyman joins the company from competitor Inflection AIMicrosoftSuleyman is the executive vice president and CEO of the new artificial intelligence division of Google. Previously, Suleyman was at DeepMind and Google.advancedCEO, and co-founded Inflection AI three years ago.
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According to the report, Microsoft "hired most of the employees from his Inflection AI startup." Inflection AI co-founder Karén Simonyan will also join Microsoft as chief scientist. Both will report directly to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
In his blog post, Nadella highly praised Suleyman's achievements in DeepMind and Inflection AI, saying that he will become an important promoter of Microsoft's artificial intelligence business. This personnel arrangement shows that Microsoft is strengthening its layout in the field of consumer artificial intelligence and competing with Google for the dominance of artificial intelligence among the five Silicon Valley giants.
With Suleyman joining, Microsoft's artificial intelligence department is expected to make new breakthroughs in consumer-oriented applications, such as pushing technologies such as artificial intelligence assistants into the future. At the same time, Microsoft will continue to maintain a strategic partnership with OpenAI to jointly promote the development of basic artificial intelligence technology.