Suleyman is jumping from a small Palo Alto startup to a $3 trillion company. : Mustafa Suleyman spoke during the Wall Street Journal’s WSJ Tech Live Conference in Laguna Beach, Calif., on Oct. 17, 2023. He represented his startup Inflection AI, but Microsoft announced on March 19, 2024, that he will now work for the tech giant. Microsoft scored a major artificial intelligence hire Tuesday, poaching the chief executive of well-funded Palo Alto startup Inflection AI.