19 december 2024
Creating a real AI companion: Interview with Mustafa Suleyman on the future of Microsoft AI
We have collected the most interesting moments of the interview with Mustafa Suleiman, Head of Microsoft AI. Mustafa is an important figure in the world of artificial intelligence. He was one of the co-founders of DeepMind, which was acquired by Google in 2014. After that, Mustafa worked as a vice president at Google for several years until he founded a new AI startup, Inflection, in 2022. Earlier this year, Inflection signed a deal with Microsoft to license its core technologies. This deal caused a lot of discussion because it was not a classic acquisition: Mustafa, his co-founder, and most of Inflection's employees moved to Microsoft. Mustafa Suleyman is currently responsible for all of Microsoft's consumer AI products: the Copilot app, Bing, Edge browser, and MSN. These services seem to be rapidly changing the way we use the web in the...