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Anusuya Lahiri

This AI Startup Roped In Big Tech Executives From Google, Meta As Founding Members

Google Inflection Nasdaq DeepMind Mustafa Suleyman Reid Hoffman Alphabet Inc CNBC LinkedIn Meta

LinkedIn (NASDAQ:MSFT) founder Reid Hoffman and DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman poached artificial intelligence gurus from Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google, and Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB) for their AI startup, Inflection, CNBC reports.
Inflection' looked to develop AI software products that enabled hassle-free communication between humans and computers.
Heinrich Kuttler quit his research engineering manager role at Meta AI in London to work on the technical side of Inflection's business. Fenton was a first-class degree holder in physics from the University of Warwick in England.
Joe Fenton quit his senior product manager role at Google to work on the product side of Inflection's business. Kuttler studied theoretical and mathematical physics at leading German universities.
Both Kuttler and Fenton used to work at DeepMind with Suleyman.

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