Microsoft is in a heated competition with other tech giants in the AI space, including OpenAI, Salesforce, and Google. The latter just lost some talent to Microsoft, since Microsoft's AI intelligence head Mustafa Suleyman hired three people from DeepMind. Marco Tagliasacchi, Zalán Borsos, and Matthias Minderer announced themselves as founding members of Microsoft's new AI office in Zurich, Switzerland.
All three of those new employees are familiar faces to Suleyman. Tagliasacchi, Borsos, and Minderer all worked at DeepMind. Suleyman co-founded DeepMind in 2010 and worked there for around 12 years before forming an AI start-up called Inflection. Suleyman and several people from Inflection later joined Microsoft in 2024. Now, three more former colleagues have joined Suleyman at Microsoft.
