Microsoft has established a new AI division called Microsoft AI to lead the development of AI-related services, and Mustafa Suleiman, co-founder of DeepMind, the predecessor of Google's AI development division Google DeepMind , has been appointed as CEO of the division. it was done. Mr. Suleiman will proceed with the development of consumer AI-related products developed by Microsoft such as Microsoft Copilot , Bing , and Microsoft Edge .
Mustafa Suleyman, DeepMind and Inflection Co-founder, joins Microsoft to lead Copilot - The Official Microsoft Blog
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/03/19/mustafa-suleyman-deepmind-and-inflection-co-founder-joins-microsoft-to-lead-copilot/
Google DeepMind co-founder joins Microsoft as CEO of its new AI division - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/19/24105900/google-deepmind-microsoft-mustafa-suleyman-ai-ceo
Mr. Suleiman is the person who co-founded the AI development company DeepMind in 2010 with Mr. Demis Hassabis and others. Google acquired DeepMind in 2014, and the acquisition price was 50 billion yen at the exchange rate at that time.
Google acquires mysterious artificial intelligence development startup company 'DeepMind' for 50 billion yen - GIGAZINE
After that, DeepMind suddenly gained attention by developing a Go AI called 'AlphaGo' that can defeat even professional Go players .
In the meantime, Mr. Suleiman will continue to work as a pioneer in AI development at Google, but in 2019, Bloomberg reported that he was given a leave of absence from Google due to controversy surrounding some of the AI development projects he led. It will be reported. After that, the Wall Street Journal reported that Google and DeepMind had begun investigating complaints that ``Mr. Suleiman bullied his staff.''
After being placed on leave, Google appointed Suleiman as vice president of AI product management and AI policy, but he will leave Google in 2022. He is also founding a new AI startup, Inflection AI .
Inflection AI is a personal AI 'Pi' that can have almost the same IQ with less than half the calculations of the large-scale language model (LLM) 'GPT-4' developed by OpenAI, and the basic model 'Inflection-2.5'. ” is being developed.
Introducing the personal AI 'Pi' and the basic model 'Inflection-2.5', which have almost the same IQ with less than half the calculations of GPT-4 - GIGAZINE
On March 20, 2024, Mr. Suleiman posted on his X (formerly Twitter) account, ``Today, I am pleased to announce that I will be joining Microsoft as CEO of Microsoft AI. My friend and longtime collaborator Karen Simonyan will be a principal investigator, and some of our great colleagues at Inflection AI will also be joining Microsoft. Under its new CEO, Inflection AI will continue its mission to reach more people than ever before by making its API widely available to developers and businesses around the world. 'It's been an amazing journey, and there's so much more to come. Thank you for your support. Things are really just getting started,' he wrote, announcing his appointment as CEO of Microsoft AI. did.
I'm excited to announce that today I'm joining @Microsoft as CEO of Microsoft AI. I'll be leading all consumer AI products and research, including Copilot, Bing and Edge. My friend and collaborator Karén Simonyan will be Chief Scientist , and several of our amazing…
— Mustafa Suleyman (@mustafasuleyman) March 19, 2024
Even if Microsoft AI is newly established, Kevin Scott will continue to serve as Microsoft's chief technology officer (CTO) and vice president of AI.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said of Suleiman's appointment as CEO of the AI division, ``I have known Mustafa for several years, and as the founder of both DeepMind and Inflection AI, he is a visionary. 'As a product developer, I have great respect for building pioneering teams pursuing bold missions.' 'We seized the opportunity to build technology that was previously thought impossible. 'He is the right person to help us in our mission to ensure the benefits of AI are safely and responsibly delivered to every person and organization on the planet.'
Microsoft is accelerating its investment in the AI field, spending hundreds of billions of yen to form a partnership with OpenAI and a partnership agreement with AI startup Mistral AI . Under such circ*mstances, Microsoft has established its own new AI division, but existing partnerships are not abandoned. Microsoft will continue to work with OpenAI, saying, ``We will continue to build AI infrastructure, including custom systems and silicon work, that support OpenAI's foundational model roadmap, and build products based on the foundational model.'' I am clearly stating that.
