Microsoft names DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman its head of AI
By Ben Glickman
Microsoft (MSFT) on Tuesday named Mustafa Suleyman, one of the founders of artificial-intelligence startup DeepMind, to lead its AI products and research.
The tech giant said that Suleyman would lead a new organization called Microsoft AI, which would oversee the Copilot AI assistant and other consumer AI products and research.
The new organization would also include Karén Simonyan as chief scientist. Simonyan is an AI researcher who was co-founder and chief scientist for startup Inflection.
Suleyman was also a founder of Inflection alongside Simonyan.
The two appointments and the creation of the AI organization was announced Tuesday in a communication to employees by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Microsoft said that several members of the team at Inflection would also join the company.
Chief Technology Officer and executive vice president of AI Kevin Scott will continue in his role and will be responsible for overall AI strategy, Nadella said.
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