TNB Tech Minute: Microsoft Hires DeepMind Co-founder to Head Consumer AI

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🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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0:35.0	I'm Alex Oscelo for the Wall Street Journal.
0:38.0	Microsoft has hired Mustafa Suleiman to lead the company's efforts on consumer artificial intelligence products.
0:45.0	Suleiman helped lead Google's Deepmind, a pioneering AI lab.
0:48.7	He left Google and co-founded Inflection AI, a startup that was last valued at $4 billion. In a post on X, Suleiman said
0:56.0	he was stepping down from his position at Inflection AI.
0:59.2	Suleiman will be leading a new organization Microsoft is forming called Microsoft AI, which will focus on advancing
1:05.0	its co-pilot integration of AI into its products.
1:09.1	Invidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company's next generation of AI chips will be affordably
1:14.0	priced to appeal to a wide group of customers. The new crop of chips,
1:17.8	cod named Blackwell, are the successors to Invidia's wildly successful
1:21.7	so-called Hopper chips. Huge demand for those chips led to supply
1:25.3	shortages that have persisted as AI demand continues to skyrocket.
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