Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, joined Microsoft as CEO of a newly formed division, Microsoft AI, overseeing consumer AI products and research including Copilot, Bing, and Edge. Inflection co-founder Karén Simonyan joined as chief scientist, and much of Inflection's staff moved with them. The hire was seen as strengthening Microsoft's in-house AI capabilities alongside its reliance on OpenAI.