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Mustafa Suleyman of Inflection AI Joins Microsoft

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Re: Mustafa Suleyman of Inflection AI Joins Microsoft

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Interesting, Mikhail Parakhin, CEO of Advertising, where Windows is reporting these days is also moving under the new org. I wonder what Microsoft's plans are for Windows now that the whole thing reports to Copilot and Ads.

Not the whole thing: a lot of the Windows org chart is still under Rajesh Jha in Experiences + Devices, or scattered around Azure with Scott Guthrie. But they've already been pushing Windows Copilot and Bing Ads and widgets, so I imagine the plan is more of the same.

Re: Mustafa Suleyman of Inflection AI Joins Microsoft

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post #3

Interesting, Mikhail Parakhin, CEO of Advertising, where Windows is reporting these days is also moving under the new org. I wonder what Microsoft's plans are for Windows now that the whole thing reports to Copilot and Ads.

> I wonder what Microsoft's plans are for Windows now that the whole thing reports to Copilot and Ads.

oh, jeez.

Re: Mustafa Suleyman of Inflection AI Joins Microsoft

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He's not a technical guy, it's not like Ilya or Geohot. So it's not that important in the grand scheme of things...

From wikipedia:

After dropping out of university at 19, Suleyman helped start the Muslim Youth Helpline[6][7] with his university friend Mohammed Mamdani,[5] a telephone counselling service. The organization would later become one of the largest mental health support services for Muslims in the UK.[5]

Suleyman subsequently worked as a policy officer on human rights for Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, before going on to start Reos Partners, a ‘systemic change’ consultancy that uses methods from conflict resolution to navigate social problems. As a negotiator and facilitator, Mustafa worked for a wide range of clients such as the United Nations, the Dutch government, and the World Wide Fund for Nature.[8][9]

Re: Mustafa Suleyman of Inflection AI Joins Microsoft

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Inflection blog post about their new CEO, and their view of the change, and new API access to their model via Azure: https://inflection.ai/the-new-inflection

Also it is worth signing up to and trying out Pi, and talking to it about something emotional. It has a different tone both audio and what it says to other LLMs: https://pi.ai

API access to that does give more options for people making apps, it is different.

Re: Mustafa Suleyman of Inflection AI Joins Microsoft

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post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think so? Inflection announced new ceo and changes today as well. The article seems to mention several employees jumped ship with Mustafa.

I think in a podcast or so just months ago, he talked about how he planned for Infections to stay in the race for next few years, and seemed to be excited about it Wonder what drives this sudden change

People say whatever they need to say

Re: Mustafa Suleyman of Inflection AI Joins Microsoft

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He's not a technical guy, it's not like Ilya or Geohot. So it's not that important in the grand scheme of things... From wikipedia: After dropping out of university at 19, Suleyman helped start the Muslim Youth Helpline[6][7] with his university friend Mohammed Mamdani,[5] a telephone counselling service. The organization would later become one of the largest mental health support services for Muslims in the UK.[5] S…

To be fair, Sam Altman is no tech guy either. Although you could also retort that Microsoft have no need for another management guy other than Nadella.

Re: Mustafa Suleyman of Inflection AI Joins Microsoft

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He's not a technical guy, it's not like Ilya or Geohot. So it's not that important in the grand scheme of things... From wikipedia: After dropping out of university at 19, Suleyman helped start the Muslim Youth Helpline[6][7] with his university friend Mohammed Mamdani,[5] a telephone counselling service. The organization would later become one of the largest mental health support services for Muslims in the UK.[5] S…

To be fair, Sam Altman is no tech guy either. Although you could also retort that Microsoft have no need for another management guy other than Nadella.

Altman is not a deep PhD-level expert researcher in Machine Learning, but you could be a lot less technical than a Stanford CS dropout who built a tech co as his first swing. He's not exactly a management consultant LARPing being technical.

Re: Mustafa Suleyman of Inflection AI Joins Microsoft

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, Sam Altman is no tech guy either. Although you could also retort that Microsoft have no need for another management guy other than Nadella.

Altman is not a deep PhD-level expert researcher in Machine Learning, but you could be a lot less technical than a Stanford CS dropout who built a tech co as his first swing. He's not exactly a management consultant LARPing being technical.

I think Suleyman is the same kind of guy. At least from what I've read on him, he seems to have some technical chops, even if he isn't a PhD expert.

Re: Mustafa Suleyman of Inflection AI Joins Microsoft

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think in a podcast or so just months ago, he talked about how he planned for Infections to stay in the race for next few years, and seemed to be excited about it Wonder what drives this sudden change

People say whatever they need to say

Apparently. I am more curious about the internal fight that leads to this, it must be glorious
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