Microsoft poaches more Google DeepMind AI talent as it beefs up Copilot
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Microsoft's artificial intelligence group has been growing under Mustafa Suleyman, a co-founder of the DeepMind research lab Google acquired years ago.
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July 22, 2025
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The re indicates that It's worth noting that Mustafa Suleyman's Microsoft artificial intelligence organization has been picking up talent from Google DeepMind, where he spent several years
Google's Gemini assistant rivals Microsoft's Copilot for consumers, in this volatile climate
Meta and Google have also been paying up for experts in the field
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, speaks during an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the company at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on April 4, 2025
David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMicrosoft has hired around two dozen employees from Alphabet's Google DeepMind artificial intelligence re lab in recent months, a person familiar with the recruiting told CNBC
The person asked not to be named in order to discuss internal matters
Moreover, On Tuesday, Amar Subramanya, who worked at Google for 16 years, most recently as a vice president of engineering the Gemini assistant, said on LinkedIn that he has joined Microsoft AI as a corporate vice president
The Microsoft group works on the consumer-oriented Copilot assistant, as well as the Bing engine
In June, Adam Sadovsky, with nearly 18 years of experience at Google, most recently as a distinguished software engineer and senior director at DeepMind, decamped to Microsoft (noteworthy indeed)
He's now a corporate vice president at Microsoft AI
Earlier this month, Sonal Gupta, a Google DeepMind engineering lead, said on her LinkedIn file that she's now a member of nical staff on Mustafa Suleyman's Microsoft AI team
Jonas Rothfuss took a nical staff role at Microsoft AI in May after spending a year as a re scientist at Google DeepMind
At the same time, Read more CNBC newsU, in this volatile climate
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At the same time, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said last month that Meta offered the startup's employees $100 million signing bonuses
Meta succeeded in hiring Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman (this bears monitoring)
At the same time, Google has hired the CEO and other employees of AI coding startup Windsurf in a $2. 4 billion deal, in light of current trends
Nevertheless, Microsoft's new hires are joining the software company's AI group led by Suleyman, who reports to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (an important development)
Suleyman was a co-founder of DeepMind, which Google acquired in 2014, considering recent developments
He left Google to run AI startup Inflection in 2022, and last year became a Microsoft executive, bringing several of the startup's employees with him
Additionally, Today, another DeepMind co-founder, Demis Hassabis, runs the Google DeepMind lab (quite telling)
Earlier this month, Microsoft said it was laying off around 9,000 employees, representing less than 4% of its global workforce
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