Reid Hoffmans new start-up poaches first staff from Google and Meta
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Inflection AI, the start-up launched earlier this month by LinkedIn billionaire Reid Hoffman and DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, has poached artificial intelligence gurus from Google and Meta, according to CNBC analysis. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Inflections aim is to develop AI software products that make it easier for humans to communicate with computers. When the company was launched, the only three team members that were made public were Suleyman, Hoffman and former DeepMind researcher Karén Simonyan. Heinrich Kuttler left his research engineering manager role at Meta AI in London this month to become a member of the founding team at Inflection, working on the technical side of the business, according to his LinkedIn page. Both Kuttler and Fenton, who used to work at DeepMind with Suleyman, did not immediately respond to a CNBC request for comment.