Microsoft said that Mustafa Suleyman, a pioneer in artificial intelligence from Britain, will head its recently established Microsoft AI group.
The AI startup Inflection AI is presently led by Mr. Suleyman, who is most recognised for having co-founded DeepMind. It was one of the most well-known AI companies in the UK when Google acquired it in 2014.
With Mr. Suleyman’s action, Microsoft further solidifies its position as a leader in artificial intelligence (AI), an area where Google seems to be having difficulty.
“Excited” to start his new role, in a message on X, the former Twitter platform, Mr. Suleyman said other coworkers he would be bringing to Microsoft were head scientist and “friend and long-time collaborator” Karén Simonyan, he added. He asserted that, with the Copilot chatbot, he was “leading all consumer AI products and research” with Bing and Edge.
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Mr. Suleyman was called a “visionary, product maker, and builder of pioneering teams that go after bold missions” by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
“I am thrilled that they will be able to offer their skills, experience, and knowledge to our consumer AI research and product development,” he said.
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Following his departure from Google in 2022, Mr. Suleyman co-founded Inflection AI, which has become a leading player in the generative AI space after securing $1.3 billion in funding from Nvidia and Microsoft in June of last year.
However, assuming his most recent role at Microsoft solidifies his standing in the industry.
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Microsoft has made billion-dollar investments in the French tech start-up Mistral AI as well as in its collaboration with OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT.
Microsoft declared that it would carry on developing AI infrastructure and supporting the “foundation model roadmap” of OpenAI.
At Google, however, the situation is currently different. The internet giant’s new AI-powered tool, Gemini, has caused controversy due to its refusal to show white persons and its alteration of the race of some white historical figures.
Google has expressed regret for “inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions” and said that its efforts to provide a “wide range” of outcomes were not successful.
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Examine the movements of the major participants in the AI race to determine who is closing the gap.
The hiring of Mustafa Suleyman tilts our hypothetical swingometer decisively in favour of the tech behemoth based in Seattle. The message is very clear: Microsoft’s long-term strategy of making significant investments in AI is beginning to pay off.
Two years ago, Mr. Suleyman quit Google to start his own business, but up until this point, he seemed to be a prominent supporter of Team Google.
Google must find it quite frustrating to watch. In theory, Google has it all: resources, know-how, infrastructure, access to data, and a sizable user base. Despite this, it has not quite clicked, which hasn’t been helped by a slew of PR gaffes.
Though neither party has verified the reports, a partnership with Apple would give its AI brand Gemini a much-needed boost. However, as of right now, it seems to be getting less and less attention in a race that it should have led from the start.
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