I’m excited to announce that today I’m joining@Microsoftas CEO of Microsoft AI.

I’ll be leading all consumer AI products and research, including Copilot, Bing and Edge.

Four years later, the company was acquired by Google for $500 million.

Microsoft hires controversial DeepMind founder Mustafa Suleyman to lead new AI unit

He leaves his current role as CEO of Inflection, which he co-founded after leaving Google in 2022.

Co-founder Karen Simonyan and others from the startup are following him to Microsoft.

Suleyman has been a figure of controversy over the years.

I apologize unequivocally to those who were affected."

My heart goes out to the women hurt by this person.

IIUC, some of you are gagged, and this must seem like a slap in the face.