The new Microsoft AI group will be run by Mustafa Suleyman, a Google DeepMind co-founder.
Microsoft is doubling down on its virtual assistant with a new business division called Microsoft AI that will focus on “advancing Copilot and our other consumer AI products and research.”
In a memo, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the new group will help ensure the company has “the capability and capacity to boldly innovate.”
“Let us use this opportunity to build world-class AI products, like Copilot, that are loved by end-users!” Nadella wrote. Hence, users can expect Copilot to pop up even more in the Windows OS, along with the Bing search engine and the Edge browser.
To lead the Microsoft AI group, Nadella hired Mustafa Suleyman, a co-founder of the AI lab DeepMind, which Google acquired in 2014.
