Microsoft AI
A new consumer AI division within Microsoft, led by Mustafa Suleyman, former CEO of Inflection AI. This division was formed after Microsoft hired most of Inflection AI's team.
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1/1/2026, 6:25:21 AM
Last Updated
1/1/2026, 6:30:52 AM
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1/1/2026, 6:30:52 AM
Summary
Microsoft AI is a specialized division of Microsoft Corporation focused on consumer-facing generative artificial intelligence, headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Formed as a major organizational shift in March 2024, the division is led by CEO Mustafa Suleyman and was significantly bolstered by the strategic hiring of the core team from Inflection AI, a move orchestrated by Satya Nadella and described by analysts as a strategic maneuver to bypass antitrust scrutiny. It oversees the Microsoft Copilot ecosystem, which replaced Cortana and integrates OpenAI's GPT-4 and GPT-5 models with Microsoft's Prometheus model. The division's reach extends into scientific research with the Microsoft Discovery platform and healthcare with the AI Diagnostic Orchestrator. Microsoft AI operates globally with offices in major tech hubs including London, Beijing, and Zurich, positioning itself as a central player in the global AI arms race against competitors like Google and Apple.
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Extracted Attributes
CEO
Mustafa Suleyman
Headquarters
Redmond, Washington, United States
Key Products
Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Discovery, Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator, Microsoft Designer
Primary Focus
Consumer Generative AI and Research
Global Offices
New York City, London, Mountain View, Beijing, Suzhou, Hyderabad, Zurich
Technology Stack
OpenAI GPT-4, GPT-5, Microsoft Prometheus
Parent Organization
Microsoft Corporation
Timeline
- Launched Bing Chat as a built-in feature for Microsoft Bing and Microsoft Edge. (Source: Wikipedia)
2023-02-01
- Announced plans to integrate Copilot into Windows 11 at the Build 2023 conference. (Source: Wikipedia)
2023-05-23
- Announced a dedicated Copilot key for Windows keyboards. (Source: Wikipedia)
2024-01-01
- Microsoft hired the core team from Inflection AI, including CEO Mustafa Suleyman, to lead the new Microsoft AI consumer division. (Source: dcee95fc-6081-4ee3-86c5-23d4840ce060)
2024-03-19
- Announced the development of the 'Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator' for medical diagnostics. (Source: Web Search (Wikipedia))
2025-06-30
Wikipedia
View on WikipediaMicrosoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Microsoft AI, a division of Microsoft. Based on OpenAI's GPT-4 and GPT-5 series of large language models, it was launched in 2023 as Microsoft's main replacement for the discontinued Cortana. The service was introduced in February 2023 under the name Bing Chat, as a built-in feature for Microsoft Bing and Microsoft Edge. Over the course of 2023, Microsoft began to unify the Copilot branding across its various chatbot products, cementing the "copilot" analogy. At its Build 2023 conference, Microsoft announced its plans to integrate Copilot into Windows 11, allowing users to access it directly through the taskbar. In January 2024, a dedicated Copilot key was announced for Windows keyboards. Copilot utilizes the Microsoft Prometheus model, built upon OpenAI's GPT-4 and GPT-5 foundational large language models, which in turn have been fine-tuned using both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques. Copilot's conversational interface style resembles that of ChatGPT. The chatbot is able to cite sources, create poems, generate songs, and use numerous languages and dialects. Microsoft operates Copilot on a freemium model. Users on its free tier can access most features, while priority access to newer features, including custom chatbot creation, is provided to paid subscribers under paid subscription services. Several default chatbots are available in the free version of Microsoft Copilot, including the standard Copilot chatbot as well as Microsoft Designer, which is oriented towards using its Image Creator to generate images based on text prompts.
Web Search Results
- AI image generator in Microsoft 365 Copilot
For both commercial and consumer users, Microsoft's AI image generation system—available through Copilot subscriptions—uses a credit-based capacity model to manage usage. Subscribers receive a monthly allotment of credits that are consumed when generating images or performing advanced AI tasks across Microsoft 365 apps like PowerPoint, Teams, and Designer. Copilot Pro users benefit from preferred access during peak times and receive in-app notifications as credits are used or depleted. This
- Microsoft AI Tools and Solutions
This is the Trace Id: dccca0e3193b1204f91f6d21ed5b9924 Microsoft Microsoft AI Microsoft AI Become a Frontier Firm: Learn how to lead your organization into the era of AI Get the e-book Microsoft AI # Transform with Microsoft AI—where trust meets innovation Discover how Microsoft AI brings intelligence into the flow of work, enabling secure, scalable solutions that accelerate transformation and empower your organization to achieve its most ambitious goals. [...] As a company, Microsoft is committed to providing trustworthy AI—with decades of research, customer feedback, and learnings informing the capabilities that deliver privacy, safety, and security [...] 2. Microsoft 365 Copilot integrates AI with Microsoft apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. It can assist with tasks like drafting emails, summarizing lengthy documents, creating reports from data, and managing your calendar. 3. AI features in Microsoft Teams include real-time transcription, translation services, meeting summaries, and action items following the meeting.
- Microsoft AI - Wikipedia
On June 30, 2025, MAI announced that they would be developing a tool called “Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator”, the company claims its four times more successful than human doctors at diagnosing complex ailments, the tool could be released on MAI's products in the future. [...] 1. ^ "Microsoft AI: About". Microsoft AI. Retrieved 2025-10-19. 2. ^ Blogs, Microsoft Corporate (2024-03-19). "Mustafa Suleyman, DeepMind and Inflection Co-founder, joins Microsoft to lead Copilot". The Official Microsoft Blog. Retrieved 2025-10-18. 3. ^ Thurrott, Paul (2024-03-19). "Microsoft Creates New Microsoft AI Organization, Led by Outsiders". Thurrott.com. Retrieved 2025-10-19. [...] Microsoft AI (abbreviated as MAI) is an American artificial intelligence research laboratory which serves as a division of Microsoft. It oversees consumer artificial intelligence products. The company is based at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington with offices in New York City, London, Mountain View, Beijing, Suzhou, Hyderabad and Zurich. ## History [edit]
- Transforming R&D with agentic AI
Microsoft is also working with PhysicsX, planning to integrate the company’s physics AI foundation models into Microsoft Discovery so customers can unlock new levels of automation, optimization, and performance across engineering and manufacturing. [...] > Together with Microsoft, we are shaping a bold AI vision for organizations who use deep science to bring innovative products to patients and consumers. Our laboratory transformation strategies and Microsoft’s Microsoft Discovery platform create a dynamic ecosystem for scientific advancement. This collaboration will help us realize the laboratory of the future, enabling scientists to push the boundaries of discovery, experimentation, and testing with greater speed and precision. > [...] At the center of this collaboration is Microsoft Copilot, acting as a scientific AI assistant that orchestrates these specialized agents based on the researcher’s prompts. Copilot is aware of all the tools, models, and knowledge bases in a customer’s catalog on the platform, can identify which agents to leverage, and can set up end-to-end workflows that cover the full discovery process by combining advanced AI and HPC simulations through the joint work of these agents.
- Microsoft: AI Utility – Weighing $392 Billion Backlog Against CapEx ...
Microsoft (MSFT) is rated a buy, driven by a 112% Y/Y surge in commercial bookings and a $392B RPO backlog, signaling structural AI demand. MSFT's AI Factory strategy and Copilot integration underpin margin resilience, with Azure revenue growth accelerating to 40% Y/Y in Q1-FY2026. Despite a forward P/E near 30x and heavy CapEx, blended valuation models indicate 113% mid-to-long-term price upside, targeting $608–$722. [...] My investment thesis for Microsoft stock (MSFT) is based on its sharp transition from AI experimentation (with OpenAI) to hyper-scale commercialization. This can be in the huge 112% Y/Y increase in commercial bookings in Q1-FY2026. Microsoft has now put This article was written by Esxeleryn Analytics 259Followers [...] Home page Seeking Alpha - Power to Investors Search for Symbols, analysts, keywords # Microsoft: The AI Utility Thesis - Weighing $392 Billion Backlog Against CapEx Depreciation Cliff Dec. 28, 2025 1:11 AM ETMicrosoft Corporation (MSFT) Stock, MSFT:CA Stock, ZMSF:CA StockOPENAI Esxeleryn Analytics 259Followers Comments ## Summary
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