Microsoft is launching a redesigned version of Copilot today that aims to serve as an AI assistant or companion. To celebrate, Microsoft's new AI CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, penned a 700-plus word memo describing a “technological paradigm shift” toward AI models that can understand what people see and hear .
Suleyman joined Microsoft earlier this year as CEO of Microsoft's new AI division, while the software giant made a number of key Inflection AI hires. In June, Suleyman sparked controversy after he boldly claimed that everything published on the internet was “freeware” that could be copied, recreated and reproduced by AI models. Now he's optimistic that AI – led by Microsoft – will create a “calmer, more helpful and supportive age of technology, unlike anything we've seen before.”