British AI pioneer Mustafa Suleyman joins Microsoft

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Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of DeepMind - which was bought by Google - is to lead Microsoft AI.

Microsoft has announced British Artificial Intelligence pioneer Mustafa Suleyman will lead its newly-formed division, Microsoft AI.

He said he would be "leading all consumer AI products and research", including the Copilot chatbot, Bing and Edge. "I am excited for them to contribute their knowledge, talent, and expertise to our consumer AI research and product making," he added.After leaving Google in 2022, Mr Suleyman co-founded Inflection AI, which has emerged as one of the most high-flying names in the generative AI race after raising $1.3bn from Microsoft and Nvidia last June.Microsoft has invested billions into its partnership with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and recently in the French tech start-up Mistral AI.

It is a different picture at Google currently though. There have been a number of issues around the tech giant's new AI-powered tool, Gemini, whichGoogle has apologised for "inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions", saying its attempts at creating a "wide range" of results missed the mark.Mustafa Suleyman's appointment nudges our imaginary swingometer firmly in the direction of the Seattle-based tech giant.

 

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