{"id":41312,"date":"2026-05-20T10:08:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/41312\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:08:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:08:35","slug":"mustafa-suleyman-founded-inflection-ai-to-return-to-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/41312\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustafa Suleyman-founded Inflection AI to return to London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tWednesday 20 May 2026 4:58 am<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Updated:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tTuesday 19 May 2026 5:41 pm\n\t<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"742\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Inflection-AI-1-e1779206484236.png\" class=\"media \" alt=\"Inflection AI logo and branding elements representing cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology advancements\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\"  \/>\t\tInflection AI was founded in 2022\t<\/p>\n<p>Silicon Valley startup Inflection AI is marking a return to London as the company forges ahead with its expansion plans, City AM can reveal.<\/p>\n<p>The artificial intelligence business was launched in 2022 by Deepmind co-founder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/entrepreneur-says-focus-on-the-big-guys-at-ai-safety-summit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Mustafa Suleyman<\/a> and attracted early backing from Linkedin founder Reid Hoffman. It released its own large language model, Pi, and was valued at $4bn in a June 2023 funding round.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But in 2024, Suleyman left the business after being poached to run Microsoft\u2019s AI division, along with most of Inflection\u2019s staff. Its UK corporate entity was shuttered shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>Inflection has since pivoted to offering enterprise AI systems and has quietly rebuilt its workforce, doubling its headcount to around 80 staff over the past 18 months, according to data from LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p>The company has now set up a UK subsidiary with a central London address as it expands operations beyond the US.<\/p>\n<p>An Inflection AI spokesperson said: \u201cWe are excited to re-establish our presence in the UK.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe previously had a UK entity that closed in early 2025, and we are now establishing a new entity as we look to expand our talented team with more exceptional engineers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRead more<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/inflection-point-challenger-banks-loan-growth-halved-in-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u2018Inflection point\u2019: Challenger banks loan growth halved in 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company declined to comment on how many staff it planned to recruit in London.<\/p>\n<p>London becomes Europe\u2019s AI capital<\/p>\n<p>The move adds Inflection to a host of US AI firms that have set up operations in London, of which the majority are based near to Google Deepmind\u2019s headquarters in Kings Cross.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, ChatGPT maker OpenAI unveiled plans to open its first permanent London office in the district, while Warren Street-based Anthropic said it would open an office with enough space for 800 staff.<\/p>\n<p>Tech and AI firms have leaded over 1m square feet of office space in London since the start of last year, according to data compiled by Knight Frank.<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s AI sector <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/uk-ai-investment-hits-record-8-3bn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">pulled in a record \u00a38.3bn<\/a> of investment last year, as global investors raced to back the country\u2019s next generation of AI firms, with London tightening its grip as Europe\u2019s leading tech hub.<\/p>\n<p>Research from Barclays Eagle Labs found funding into UK AI companies surged in 2025 after a sluggish period for venture capital markets, driven by growing demand for businesses building everything from AI infrastructure to legal software.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRead more<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/the-notebook-lab-grown-diamonds-are-an-inflection-point-for-luxury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lab-grown diamonds are an inflection point for luxury<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\tSimilarly tagged content: <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tSections\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tCategories\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPeople &amp; Organisations\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday 20 May 2026 4:58 am \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Updated:\u00a0 Tuesday 19 May 2026 5:41 pm Inflection AI was founded in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[1418,20659,633,1189,27,18,431],"class_list":["post-41312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-ai","tag-artificial-inteligence","tag-business","tag-deepmind","tag-london","tag-news","tag-uk-economy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116606357163381770","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}