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 broke, as well as additional details published by Business Insider, said Suleyman's "management style fell short" of expected standards.[19][20].
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]
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 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.
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.
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.
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