Microsoft hiring Inflection team triggers interest from EU's antitrust chief

Amid the scramble to hire developer talent in the field of AI, regulators in the European Union are expressing interest in recent events that saw Microsoft lift and shift most of the team at Inflection. Microsoft formed an AI division last month headed by Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan, founders of Inflection. It …

[xyz]

MS infection team..

Do you mean MS developers?

Rats. .. I didn't see the "l"

:-)

[MiguelC]

Re: MS infection team..

It's always management....

[v13]

Of course

Why buy startup when me can buy developers?

- Microsoft

WTF?

- Everyone else

[Anonymous Coward]

Resistance is futile ..

“Microsoft .. reportedly paid the Palo Alto based startup $650 million in a move that saw scores of the team transfer to Microsoft”

This is classic Microsoft, invest in a company then desiccate it from the inside, leaving nothing but a husk.

After raising $1.3B, Inflection is eaten alive by its biggest investor, Microsoft