Microsoft has appointed the co-founder of the British artificial intelligence lab DeepMind as the head of a new AI division. Mustafa Suleyman, 39, co-founded DeepMind with Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg in 2010 and the company went on to be bought by Google for 400m in 2014. It now forms the core of Google's AI efforts after merging with another unit to become Google DeepMind in 2023. The chief executive of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, announced in a blogpost that the British AI pioneer, who left DeepMind in 2019, will be chief executive of a new organisation called Microsoft AI focusing on the US company's consumer products and research. Several employees at Sulyeman's Inflection AI startup will join the division.