DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman will run Microsoft’s new consumer AI unit

Enlarge / Mustafa Suleyman, talks on Day 1 of the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park at Bletchley Park on November 1, 2023 in Bletchley, England. (credit: Getty Images)

Microsoft has hired Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of Google’s DeepMind and chief executive of artificial intelligence startup Inflection, to run a new consumer AI unit.

Suleyman, a British entrepreneur who cofounded DeepMind in London in 2010, will report to Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella, the company announced on Tuesday. He will launch a division of Microsoft that brings consumer-facing products, including Microsoft’s Copilot, Bing, Edge, and GenAI under one team called Microsoft AI.

Nadella said in a statement on Tuesday: “I’ve known Mustafa for several years and have greatly admired him as a founder of both DeepMind and Inflection, and as a visionary, product maker and builder of pioneering teams that go after bold missions.”