Microsoft AI CEO n on his 'transfer' that people term as 'demotion': Don't be surprised by my new role

Mustafa Suleyman says his move away from Microsoft Copilot was never a demotion—it was a plan nine months in the making. The Microsoft AI CEO, in an interview with The Verge, said building frontier AI models is exactly where he wants to be. His team has already delivered MAI-Transcribe-1, a speech-to-text model supporting 25 languages that costs half as much in GPU compute as rival state-of-the-art models.

Microsoft AI CEO n on his 'transfer' that people term as 'demotion': Don't be surprised by my new role
Mustafa Suleyman says his move away from Microsoft Copilot was never a demotion—it was a plan nine months in the making. The Microsoft AI CEO, in an interview with The Verge, said building frontier AI models is exactly where he wants to be. His team has already delivered MAI-Transcribe-1, a speech-to-text model supporting 25 languages that costs half as much in GPU compute as rival state-of-the-art models.