Microsoft AI CEO hires ex-DeepMind staff for new London AI health unit
The AI CEO at Microsoft is reported to have hired a number of former colleagues to help run an all new AI health unit in London.
The Financial Times reports that Mustafa Suleyman has hired Dominic King, a UK-trained surgeon who was the former head of DeepMind’s health unit.
The publisher states the CEO has also poached Christopher Kelly who was a clinical research scientist at DeepMind, along with two other people. Suleyman was a co-founder at the AI startup DeepMind, before co-founding Inflection, and was the former head of applied AI.
DeepMind was acquired by Microsoft and Suleyman joined the technology giant in March of this year. It was then that a new organization named Microsoft AI was created, focused on advancing Copilot and other consumer AI products and research.
Microsoft AI reported to be opening a London-based AI health unitThis news comes at a time when the health industry has seen growth due to the AI boom, as people are turning to chatbots for support with health-related queries.
A study by Deloitte revealed that 48 per cent of respondents asked generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, or Claude health-focused questions.
The FT reports in their scoop that Microsoft has confirmed the creation of the new unit: “In our mission to inform, support and empower everyone with responsible AI, health is a critical use case.
“We continue to hire top talent in support of these efforts.”
The Microsoft AI CEO is British and was born and raised in London. Shortly after he joined the team, he announced in April that a new hub would be opening in England’s capital city.
It was stated this hub would “drive pioneering work to advance state-of-the-art language models and their supporting infrastructure” as well as creating “world-class tooling for foundation models, collaborating closely with our AI teams across Microsoft and with our partners, including OpenAI.”
Suleyman said the Microsoft AI London hub was “great news for Microsoft AI and for the U.K.”
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