In 2010, Suleyman co-founded DeepMind, an AI startup to grow machine learning and artificial intelligence more. Later on Google’s acquired DeepMind in 2014, Suleyman became the VP of AI Products and AI Policy.
Mustafa Suleyman is the new CEO of Microsoft’s new AI division. Here is all you need to know about the new Microsoft AI CEO. He is also the co-founder of Google’s DeepMind. Suleyman earlier has worked on AI innovation.
Suleyman announced his new role on social media handles and stated how excited he is about it. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella also said that he is “thrilled” to have Suleyman onboard.
Who Is Mustafa Suleyman And what is his background? What was he doing before joining Microsoft? Let us know more over here.
Mustafa Suleyman’s Earlier Journey
Suleyman’s father worked as a native Syrian taxi driver and his mother was a nurse in the National Health Service (NHS) in England. He grew up nearby to Caledonian Road in north London with his parents and two younger siblings.
Mustafa Suleyman Drops Out Of Oxford
According to the reports Suleyman enrolled at Oxford University to study philosophy and theology but left it in his second year. He was only 19 years old when he dropped out of Oxford. He started the Muslim Youth Helpline, along with his friend. It was a telephone counselling service which became the UK’s foremost mental health support platform.
The helpline offered support to vulnerable young people, and also provided faith and culturally sensitive assistance.
Suleyman Works On DeepMind Projects
In 2010, Suleyman co-founded DeepMind, an AI startup to grow machine learning and artificial intelligence more. Later on Google’s acquired DeepMind in 2014, Suleyman became the VP of AI Products and AI Policy.
In 2022, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Suleyman co-founded Inflection AI. Inflection AI grew faster and received good funding. It also got support from Microsoft and NVIDIA.
Mustafa Suleyman Career
He invented unique applications like AI algorithms which reduce energy consumption in Google’s data centers. He was recognised as 100 most influential people in AI by Time Magazine in 2023.
Mustafa Suleyman As Microsoft AI CEO
Suleyman will directly report to Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella and oversee various projects within the consumer AI realm like integrating AI Copilot into Windows and enhancing conversational capabilities in the Bing search engine.
Along with Suleyman, a portion of staff from his startup will also be transferred from Inflection AI to Microsoft. Inflection AI, will focus on providing AI software solutions to businesses, but will still maintain its consumer chatbot business.
