Read Mustafa Suleyman's first blog as CEO of Microsoft AI

Mustafa Suleyman said the Microsoft AI London hub would focus on AI research and development.

• The newly installed boss of Microsoft AI shared his first blog on the company's website.
• In the blog, Mustafa Suleyman announced plans for a new AI hub in London.
• Microsoft aims to hire "exceptional individuals" for the hub and plans to post job openings soon.

Mustafa Suleyman made his first big announcement since taking the helm at Microsoft AI.

Suleyman said he was "thrilled" to announce that Microsoft is opening an AI hub in London, where staffers will work on language and foundation models and collaborate with partners. These include OpenAI, the Inflection AI cofounder wrote in a blog Sunday.

Suleyman added that the hub, based out of Microsoft's office in Paddington, will be led by Jordan Hoffmann, an AI scientist and engineer who formerly worked at Inflection and DeepMind.

The announcement comes after Satya Nadella tapped Suleyman last month to lead the firm's AI consumer AI products and research, including Copilot, Bing, and Edge.

After he told Inflection AI's workforce that he was joining Microsoft, Suleyman brought Nadella onstage as a surprise guest at a Hyatt hotel auditorium, The Information reported.

Inflection's 70-person team, who were also offered deals to join Microsoft, reportedly gasped and applauded.

According to an audio recording of the meeting obtained by The Information, one employee asked Nadella, "How do we help Microsoft really choose the big bets and go bold and not dilute this with what I am projecting to be big, corporate slowness?"

The Microsoft CEO responded, "I think the way to frame it perhaps is, 'Do you have the hunger to change a company of the scope and size and scale of Microsoft?' Do you kind of have it in you to get up in the morning and say, 'Ah, I'll take that on. I will change a $3 trillion company and have it move'?"

Microsoft AI is seeking "exceptional individuals" to join the new hub and plans to post job openings in the next few weeks and months, Suleyman said in the Sunday blog.

Read the full blog post below:

Microsoft recently announced the creation of Microsoft AI, a newly formed organization to help advance our consumer AI products and research, including Copilot. Building on that news, I'm thrilled to share that Microsoft AI is opening a new AI hub in the heart of London.

Microsoft AI London will drive pioneering work to advance state-of-the-art language models and their supporting infrastructure, and to create world-class tooling for foundation models, collaborating closely with our AI teams across Microsoft and with our partners, including OpenAI.

The new AI hub will be led by Jordan Hoffmann, an exceptional AI scientist and engineer. Prior to joining Microsoft AI, Hoffmann distinguished himself as an AI pioneer at Inflection and DeepMind, based in London. Hoffmann will be joined by a talented group of Microsoft AI team members based in our London Paddington office.  

There is an enormous pool of AI talent and expertise in the U.K., and Microsoft AI plans to make a significant, long-term investment in the region as we begin hiring the best AI scientists and engineers into this new AI hub.

In the coming weeks and months, we will be posting job openings and actively hiring exceptional individuals who want to work on the most interesting and challenging AI questions of our time. We're looking for new team members who are driven by impact at scale, and who are passionate innovators eager to contribute to a team culture where continuous learning is the norm.

This is great news for Microsoft AI and for the U.K. As a British citizen, born and raised in London, I'm proud to have co-founded and built a cutting-edge AI business here. I'm deeply aware of the extraordinary talent pool and AI ecosystem in the U.K., and I'm excited to make this commitment to the U.K. on behalf of Microsoft AI. I know – through my close work with thought leaders in the U.K. government, business community and academia – that the country is committed to advancing AI responsibly and with a safety-first commitment to drive investment, innovation and economic growth. Our decision to open this hub in the U.K. reflects this ambition.

The Microsoft AI London hub adds to Microsoft's existing presence in the U.K., including the Microsoft Research Cambridge lab, home to some of the foremost researchers in the areas of AI, cloud and productivity. At the same time, it builds off Microsoft's recently announced £2.5 billion investment to upskill the U.K. workforce for the AI era and to build the infrastructure to power the AI economy, including our commitment to bring 20,000 of the most advanced GPUs to the country by 2026.

Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to push the boundaries of what's possible with AI and extend the benefits to every person and organization across the U.K.