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Microsoft’s Bold AI Move with Inflection’s Suleyman: Is Pi the answer?
3 min readMar 19, 2024
Was Pi the answer all along?
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced the formation of Microsoft AI, led by Mustafa Suleyman, which marked a strategic move toward enhancing AI innovation. This initiative aims to advance consumer AI products, including Copilot, focusing on integrating science, engineering, and design.
- Strategic AI Expansion: Microsoft forms the new Microsoft AI organization, with Mustafa Suleyman at the helm as EVP and CEO, reporting directly to Satya Nadella.
- Co-Founders’ Expertise: Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection, and Karén Simonyan, co-founder and Chief Scientist of Inflection, bring their pioneering expertise to Microsoft.
- Focus on Consumer AI: The initiative is set to advance consumer AI products like Copilot, Bing, and Edge, leveraging the Inflection team’s talent.
- Deepmind roots: Suleyman’s past achievements include co-founding DeepMind, which is now at the core of Google’s AI efforts.
- Ethics and AI Leadership: Known for his contributions to AI ethics, Suleyman co-founded Inflection AI to improve human-computer interactions with its chatbot Pi and co-chaired the Partnership on AI.
- A Vision for AI’s Future…