Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI UK Ltd., speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 18, 2024.
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Microsoft’s Certain former employees employed by artificial intelligence startup Inflection have been transferred to the UK for a preliminary merger investigation
Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said on Tuesday that the hiring of Inflection co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and most of the startup’s staff should be assessed to determine whether it constituted a merger under British rules that would result in less competition in artificial intelligence. field.
If it finds there are grounds for further investigation, the CMA can refer the case for an in-depth investigation, a “stage two” investigation. The CMA said it would announce a decision on whether to refer the case to a second stage of investigation by September 11.
Microsoft announced in March Hire Suleiman from Inflection as well as a number of other key employees from the company.
Suleyman has been named executive vice president and CEO of Microsoft AI, the company’s newly formed division focused on its AI products, including Copilot, the company’s AI assistant integrated into Windows and Microsoft 365 software.
In addition to Suleiman’s senior executive appointments, the Washington-based tech giant has selected Karen Simonyan to join the company as chief scientist, reporting to Suleiman.
Suleyman and Simonyan are both former employees of DeepMind, Google’s artificial intelligence laboratory.
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