Microsoft Promises Self-Sufficient AI by Hiring New Overlord, Again
KEY POINTS
- •Microsoft hired Ali Farhadi, who stepped down as Ai2 CEO earlier this month, as corporate VP under Mustafa Suleyman.
- •Suleyman formed an in-house AI team in November focused on frontier models to make Microsoft self-sufficient in AI.
- •In March 2026, Suleyman shifted to focus fully on superintelligence efforts aiming to deliver world-class AI in five years.
In a move that screams 'Let’s build Skynet but with HR,' Microsoft welcomed Ali Farhadi as corporate VP under Mustafa Suleyman, the freshly minted CEO of Microsoft AI and founder of their November-born 'superintelligence' dream team. Farhadi, who hopped off his CEO throne at the Allen Institute for AI earlier this month, brings street cred from Apple’s $200 million baby, Xnor.ai, specializing in on-device AI—basically pocket-sized robot overlord tech. Suleyman, meanwhile, pivoted all his energy in March 2026 to focus on Microsoft’s five-year plan for world-class AI models, promising to train frontier models with 'state-of-the-art' data and compute, hoping to turn Microsoft into an AI cage fighter that’s finally self-sufficient. Ali is now in the internal system and LinkedIn headlines, which after a corporate poke, Suleyman promptly plastered as a welcome. The AI race couldn’t be spicier or more corporate-speak.
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(1 of 3)Microsoft just hired Ali Farhadi under Mustafa Suleyman to create self-sufficient AI, proving even the robots need bosses who fire and hire like it’s a soap opera.
Hiring Ali Farhadi to manage AI under Mustafa Suleyman sounds less like innovation and more like corporate pass-the-buck with extra GPUs.
Microsoft’s AI team is basically a family drama now: CEO Mustafa hires VP Ali to remind AI who’s really running the Silicon jungle gym.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 3/23/2026 | Author: Ashley Stewart
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