“Microsoft just announced the hiring of DeepMind co-founder (and Inflection AI CEO) Mustafa Suleyman. He will lead a new division called ‘Microsoft AI’ — focused on advancing consumer AI. Co-founder Karen Simonyan and several others from Inflection will be joining him.  https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1770294497244577998

Inflection sunsets Pi and focuses on API. aka everyone’s going to work at Microsoft.
The new Inflection: An important change to how we’ll work – https://inflection.ai/the-new-inflection

Microsoft Agreed to Pay Inflection $650 Million While Hiring Its Staff — The Information – https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-agreed-to-pay-inflection-650-million-while-hiring-its-staff 

Why Microsoft’s surprise deal with $4 billion startup Inflection is the most important non-acquisition in AI – https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-microsoft-surprise-deal-4-220638392.html 

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