In March 2024, DeepMind and Inflection co-founder data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/deepmind-co-founder-joins-microsoft-to-lead-development-on-copilot-under-new-microsoft-ai-org” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/deepmind-co-founder-joins-microsoft-to-lead-development-on-copilot-under-new-microsoft-ai-org”>Mustafa Suleyman joined Microsoft to lead its AI division, focusing on advancing Copilot and other consumer data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-redirect=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/artificial-intelligence” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence”>AI products and research.
Microsoft has been heavily invested in the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence”>generative AI landscape, especially after data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-may-invest-dollar10-billion-into-openai-the-company-behind-chatgpt” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-may-invest-dollar10-billion-into-openai-the-company-behind-chatgpt”>making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI back in 2019. Since then, the AI firm has remained closely aligned with Microsoft, despite data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/satya-nadella-says-bill-gates-almost-nuked-microsofts-partnership-with-openai” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/satya-nadella-says-bill-gates-almost-nuked-microsofts-partnership-with-openai”>Bill Gates initially discouraging CEO Satya Nadella from investing. “You’re going to burn this billion…