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This TechCrunch article discusses Microsoft's recent strategic moves in the AI sector. The company has hired Mustafa Suleyman and Karen Simonyan, co-founders of Inflection AI, a prominent startup that Microsoft had led a $1.3 billion funding round for the previous year. Suleyman, who is also a co-founder of DeepMind acquired by Google in 2014, will head Microsoft's new consumer AI unit, Microsoft AI, while Simonyan will join as a chief scientist. Microsoft plans to use these hires to showcase their latest AI advances for customers in an upcoming event. Inflection AI, meanwhile, will shift its focus to the AI studio business, building and testing customer generative AI models. The company also plans to host Inflection-2.5 on Microsoft Azure to reach creators globally.