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- 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.