Artificial Intelligence

DeepMind co-founder to head up Microsoft’s AI consumer business

Mustafa Suleyman and most of the staff at his Inflection AI start-up are joining Microsoft

Mustafa Suleyman. Picture: Bloomberg

Microsoft has named Mustafa Suleyman head of its consumer artificial intelligence business, hiring most of the staff from his Inflection AI start-up as the software giant seeks to fend off Alphabet’s Google in the fiercely contested market for AI products.

Suleyman, who co-founded Google’s DeepMind, will report to chief executive Satya Nadella and oversee a range of projects, such as integrating an AI Copilot into Windows and adding conversational elements to the Bing search engine. His hiring will put Microsoft’s consumer ...