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MICROSOFT FACES UK COMPETITION INVESTIGATION OVER HIRING OF AI STARTUP'S FOUNDER AND KEY STAFF
Techlife News
|July 20, 2024
British regulators opened a preliminary investigation on Tuesday into Microsoft’s hiring of an AI startup’s key staff over concerns that it could thwart competition in the booming artificial intelligence market.
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The Competition and Markets Authority said its review of the hirings from Inflection AI, including its co-founder and CEO Mustafa Suleyman, turned up “sufficient information” to open an investigation.
Microsoft hired Suleyman to head up its consumer artificial intelligence business earlier this year, and brought over several top engineers and researchers. Suleyman co-founded the AI research lab DeepMind, which is now owned by Google, before setting up Inflection and is considered an influential figure in the AI world.
This story is from the July 20, 2024 edition of Techlife News.
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