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Microsoft hiring Deep Mind co-founder Mustafa Soliman to run their new AI division might sound like

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Microsoft has hired Deep Mind co-founder Mustafa Suleiman to run Consumer AI at Microsoft reporting directly to Sasha Nadella and also brought on board most of the staff from his

Inflection AI startup which had raised over a billion dollars in just the last year.

This is all part of Microsoft creating Microsoft AI, a division slash brand, focused on

co-pilot and other consumer AI products. Mustafa Suleiman will be its CEO and

Corren Simonian its chief scientist quoting Bloomberg.

Inflection a rival of Microsoft's key AI partner open AI is shifting to selling

AI software to businesses,

but will continue operating its Pie Consumer Chatbot Business for now.

Inflection in June raised $1.3 billion in one of the largest funding rounds

of Silicon Valley's AI frenzy.

That round valued the startup at $4 billion a person familiar with the matter said at the time.

Microsoft board member Reed Hoffman is a co-founder of the two-year-old startup

alongside Suleiman and Simonian and other investors include

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and Invidia.

Inflections Pie Chatbot was designed to mimic human understanding of emotions and interact with users in a supportive fashion.

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