AgenciesAmar Subramanya, former technical head of Google’s Gemini chatbot, has now taken up the role of corporate vice president of AI at Microsoft on Wednesday.
In his LinkedIn post, Subramanya emphasised Microsoft’s work culture, calling it “low ego” and stating that the company and its employees are highly driven.
“Just one week into my new role, I’m already feeling deeply energised. The culture here is refreshingly low ego yet bursting with ambition,” he said.
Amar Subramanya, a Google veteran of 16 years and former vice president of engineering, has worked on the Gemini assistant.
He described Microsoft’s AI culture as fast-paced, collaborative, and focussed on building innovative foundation models for AI products like Microsoft Copilot.
“It reminds me of the best parts of a startup: fast-moving, collaborative, and deeply focussed on building truly innovative, state-of-the-art foundation models to drive delightful AI-powered products such as Microsoft Copilot,” he said.
“In conversations with Mustafa Suleyman and Satya Nadella, their shared commitment to reimagining how people interact with these technologies every day is nothing short of inspiring,” Subramanya added.
The organisation has been actively hiring artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, developers, and product specialists from Google DeepMind over the past six months. ET reported in March when Microsoft named Mustafa Suleyman, who co-founded Google’s DeepMind, as head of its consumer AI business.
According to CNBC, around two dozen former DeepMind employees have joined Microsoft in recent months, expanding its AI division.
Others who recently joined Microsoft’s AI group include:
Bill Gates’ vision not enough
Microsoft has long advocated its strategy around building AI capabilities to position itself as not just a software company, as founder Bill Gates envisioned, but rather “an intelligence engine” to be better positioned in the new era, chief executive Satya Nadella said on Thursday in a memo to the staff.
“When Bill founded Microsoft, he envisioned not just a software company, but a software factory, unconstrained by any single product or category. That idea has guided us for decades. But today, it’s no longer enough,” Nadella said.
He said Microsoft is shifting from simply building tools to empowering everyone to create their own, evolving from a software provider to an intelligence platform that enables people and organisations to build what they need.
In his LinkedIn post, Subramanya emphasised Microsoft’s work culture, calling it “low ego” and stating that the company and its employees are highly driven.
“Just one week into my new role, I’m already feeling deeply energised. The culture here is refreshingly low ego yet bursting with ambition,” he said.
Amar Subramanya, a Google veteran of 16 years and former vice president of engineering, has worked on the Gemini assistant.
He described Microsoft’s AI culture as fast-paced, collaborative, and focussed on building innovative foundation models for AI products like Microsoft Copilot.
“It reminds me of the best parts of a startup: fast-moving, collaborative, and deeply focussed on building truly innovative, state-of-the-art foundation models to drive delightful AI-powered products such as Microsoft Copilot,” he said.
“In conversations with Mustafa Suleyman and Satya Nadella, their shared commitment to reimagining how people interact with these technologies every day is nothing short of inspiring,” Subramanya added.
The organisation has been actively hiring artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, developers, and product specialists from Google DeepMind over the past six months. ET reported in March when Microsoft named Mustafa Suleyman, who co-founded Google’s DeepMind, as head of its consumer AI business.
According to CNBC, around two dozen former DeepMind employees have joined Microsoft in recent months, expanding its AI division.
Others who recently joined Microsoft’s AI group include:
- Sonal Gupta, a former engineering lead at Google DeepMind, has joined Suleyman’s team as a technical staff member.
- Adam Sadovsky, previously a software engineer and senior director at DeepMind, with nearly 18 years at Google, now serves as a corporate VP at Microsoft AI.
- Jonas Rothfuss spent a year at Google DeepMind as a research scientist. He joined Microsoft AI’s technical staff in May.
Bill Gates’ vision not enough
Microsoft has long advocated its strategy around building AI capabilities to position itself as not just a software company, as founder Bill Gates envisioned, but rather “an intelligence engine” to be better positioned in the new era, chief executive Satya Nadella said on Thursday in a memo to the staff.
“When Bill founded Microsoft, he envisioned not just a software company, but a software factory, unconstrained by any single product or category. That idea has guided us for decades. But today, it’s no longer enough,” Nadella said.
He said Microsoft is shifting from simply building tools to empowering everyone to create their own, evolving from a software provider to an intelligence platform that enables people and organisations to build what they need.
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