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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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Post by bionhoward »

I can’t stand the way he tweets while ignoring the inflection customer noncompete nightmare. Maybe I’m just out of touch with corpo world as a solo founder guy but damn wtf is everyone at OpenAI/Microsoft/Anthropic/Inflection/Nvidia/Google smoking that they think it’s OK to claim fair use in learning from everyone then forbid others from using their technology to make AI/ML stuff ? Am I wrong to be continually shocked about these legal terms? IMHO, hypocrisy is a priori unreasonable.

If you read this and care about AI, then please consider switching to Mistral because their CEO actively deleted the customer noncompete and they are the only option with no such term.

Re: Mustafa Suleyman of Inflection AI Joins Microsoft

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Post by gigel82 »

ngomez wrote: post #11
gigel82 wrote: 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.

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.

Mikhail reported to Rajesh Jha and I guess now he'll report to Mustafa.

Mikhail's official title is CEO of Advertising and the entire Windows Engineering org reports to him.

I just asked some MS friends who confirmed.

Re: Mustafa Suleyman of Inflection AI Joins Microsoft

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Post by whoevercares »

eclectic29 wrote: post #7

This is really bad news for Microsoft culture. See https://archive.is/ZuvYu . Also from Wikipedia: In August 2019, Suleyman was placed on administrative leave following allegations of bullying employees.[17][18] The company hired an external lawyer to investigate, and shortly thereafter Suleyman left to take a VP role at parent company Google. An email circulated by DeepMind's leadership to staff after the story brok…

Bill Gates used to call people idiots to their face all the time

Re: Mustafa Suleyman of Inflection AI Joins Microsoft

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Post by stephencoyner »

whoevercares wrote: post #24
eclectic29 wrote: post #7

This is really bad news for Microsoft culture. See https://archive.is/ZuvYu . Also from Wikipedia: In August 2019, Suleyman was placed on administrative leave following allegations of bullying employees.[17][18] The company hired an external lawyer to investigate, and shortly thereafter Suleyman left to take a VP role at parent company Google. An email circulated by DeepMind's leadership to staff after the story brok…

Bill Gates used to call people idiots to their face all the time

What I’ve heard from people who have presented to him is he liked to say “that’s the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever heard”

At the same time, it seemed to draw results

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Post by belter »

whoevercares wrote: post #24
eclectic29 wrote: post #7

This is really bad news for Microsoft culture. See https://archive.is/ZuvYu . Also from Wikipedia: In August 2019, Suleyman was placed on administrative leave following allegations of bullying employees.[17][18] The company hired an external lawyer to investigate, and shortly thereafter Suleyman left to take a VP role at parent company Google. An email circulated by DeepMind's leadership to staff after the story brok…

Bill Gates used to call people idiots to their face all the time

Was that before or after getting into philanthropy foundations? :-)

Re: Mustafa Suleyman of Inflection AI Joins Microsoft

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Post by whoevercares »

stephencoyner wrote: post #25
whoevercares wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bill Gates used to call people idiots to their face all the time

What I’ve heard from people who have presented to him is he liked to say “that’s the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever heard” At the same time, it seemed to draw results

That’s damn true

Re: Mustafa Suleyman of Inflection AI Joins Microsoft

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Post by ycsux »

bionhoward wrote: post #21

I can’t stand the way he tweets while ignoring the inflection customer noncompete nightmare. Maybe I’m just out of touch with corpo world as a solo founder guy but damn wtf is everyone at OpenAI/Microsoft/Anthropic/Inflection/Nvidia/Google smoking that they think it’s OK to claim fair use in learning from everyone then forbid others from using their technology to make AI/ML stuff ? Am I wrong to be continually shocke…

Will do that. I hate the way OpenAI can't say where their training data is from, even
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