Already a subscriber?Microsoft has named Mustafa Suleyman head of its consumer artificial intelligence business, hiring most of the staff from his Inflection AI startupin the fiercely contested market for AI products.
Nadella said Microsoft is “very committed” to its partnership with OpenAI. Microsoft will continue to provide the startup with the cloud-computing power to build its AI models and will use those in its software. Suleyman will be tasked with forming them into compelling, well-designed products for consumers. “We have in the world a number of cutting-edge pre-trained models,” Suleyman said. “The real challenge we have is turning those models into actual products today.
“We want to bring real competition,” Nadella said in the interview. “The thing that’s beautiful is when the medium changes, it means we get to play again to say, what’s the browser mean? What does even the operating system mean? What is an assistant? And so that’s the exciting part—not what happened but what is going to happen—it’s the rebirth of personal computing.”