Satya Nadella welcomes Mustafa Suleyman as CEO of Microsoft AI

As CEO of Microsoft AI, Suleyman will lead consumer AI products and research including Copilot, Bing and Edge.

New Delhi: Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday welcomed Mustafa Suleyman as CEO of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) business. As CEO of Microsoft AI, Suleyman will lead consumer AI products and research including Copilot, Bing and Edge.

“Welcome to Microsoft. I’m excited to have you lead Microsoft AI as we build consumer AI like Copilot that people around the world love and benefit from,” Nadella wrote on X. Suleyman was co-founder and former head of applied AI at DeepMind, an AI company acquired by Google.

After leaving DeepMind, he co-founded Inflection AI, a machine learning and generative AI company, in 2022. “My friend and longtime collaborator Karen Simonyan will be chief scientist, and several of our great teammates have chosen to join us,” Suleyman also posted on X.

He said Inflection AI will continue its mission under a new CEO and reach more people than ever by making its API widely available to developers and businesses around the world. “It’s been an amazing journey, and there’s much more to come. Thank you to everyone for your support. Things are just getting started,” he added.

Suleyman co-founded DeepMind Technologies, an AI and machine learning company, and became its Chief Product Officer. The company received support from the Founders’ Fund and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, among others. In 2014, DeepMind was reportedly acquired by Google for £400 million.