Who's MovingApril 2, 2026via The Verge AI
Microsoft’s new ‘superintelligence’ game plan is all about business
Why it matters
Microsoft's inaugural AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has undergone a major role transition focused specifically on pursuing superintelligence, signaling Microsoft's strategic pivot and long-term AI ambitions beyond current partnerships.
Key signals
- Suleyman prepared for this transition for 9 months
- Microsoft underwent large-scale restructuring in mid-March
- Microsoft renegotiated contract with OpenAI to pursue superintelligence
The hook
Microsoft's AI CEO just shifted his entire job description. His new mission? Superintelligence.
Mustafa Suleyman has been preparing for his new job description for a long time. Suleyman is Microsoft's inaugural CEO of AI, but after the company underwent a large-scale restructuring in mid-March, he's handed off some duties and shifted focus to chasing superintelligence. Though the news was only made public last month, he tells The Verge, he'd been preparing for the transition for as many as nine months - and though renegotiating Microsoft's contract with OpenAI is the thing that officially "unlocked [Microsoft's] ability to pursue superintelligence," he'd been planning even before the ink was dry.
"This has been a long-held plan," he …
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