DeepMind co-founder joins Microsoft to lead Copilot development under new 'Microsoft AI' org

[Windows Central]

Microsoft has announced an internal reorg, with products like Bing, Edge, and Copilot moving under a new "Microsoft AI" division lead by DeepMind and Inflection co-founder Mustafa Suleyman.

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Well, now...

Microsoft AI is roughly equal to XBOX, organizationally, but on the bottom line, AZURE is still tops. And at Microsoft's size, you can just as easily call the many things other than a Consumer electronics or advertising company. But looking at everything they are still primarily an enterprise tools company. And Microsoft AI doesn't change that until AI brings in more money than AZURE, OFFICE, or even XBOX.

At best "Microsoft as an AI company" is aspirational. At worst, it is a PR branding exercise to put some distance between themselves and OpenAI. The latter is more likely in light of their past "embrace and extend" tactics. And right on schedule, too.