Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman: One of the most important responsibilities I have at Microsoft is …

Microsoft hired Mustafa Suleyman and Karen Simonyan, co-founders of high-profile AI startup Inflection AI, and several of their colleagues in March 2024. Suleyman, also a co-founder of DeepMind, which Google bought in 2014 to bolster its own AI efforts, heads Microsoft’s consumer AI unit, called Microsoft AI. In November last year, Microsoft said that the company is forming a team that will be tasked with performing advanced artificial intelligence research. Suleyman, CEO of the Microsoft AI group that includes Bing and the Copilot assistant, announced the formation of the MAI Superintelligence Team, and said in a blog post that he will be leading it. The term Superintelligence typically refers to machines deemed more intelligent than the smartest people.