Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman mentioned he’s in common contact together with his friends in synthetic intelligence, together with OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis.
Actually, Suleyman and Hassabis as soon as labored collectively as cofounders of DeepMind, although Suleyman went on to cofound Inflection AI then joined Microsoft final yr.
In a wide-ranging interview with Bloomberg on Friday, he was requested to share his ideas on a few of his fellow AI leaders, together with Altman, whose startup not too long ago accomplished a for-profit restructuring and revamped its partnership with Microsoft.
He described Altman as “courageous,” noting that OpenAI is aggressively constructing out a fleet of AI knowledge facilities to deal with the huge quantity of computing energy wanted to run ChatGPT.
“He may well turn out to be one of the great entrepreneurs of our generation,” Suleyman added. “He’s certainly achieved a lot. He’s building data centers at a faster rate than anyone in the industry, and if he can pull it off, it will be pretty dramatic.”
And regardless of issues that OpenAI’s funding commitments far outstrip its present degree of income, he mentioned he has each confidence the corporate can pull it off.
As for Hassabis, Suleyman referred to as him an excellent scientist. “I think he’s a great thinker and he’s a good polymath. He’s made massive contributions in the field, multiple times. He’s truly exceptional.”
Suleyman additionally revealed that regardless that the one-time collaborators at the moment are opponents, they continue to be good mates and keep in contact usually. He even texted Hassabis not too long ago to congratulate him on Nano Banana, Gemini 3 and AlphaFold.
Then he was requested about Elon Musk, who’s an OpenAI cofounder however has since fallen out with Altman and is pursuing AI by way of his startup xAI. Suleyman referred to as him a “bulldozer.”
“He’s kind of got superhuman capabilities to bend reality to his will and has, you know, pretty incredible track record,” he added. “And somehow he sort of mostly manages to pull off what appears to be impossible.”
Not solely did Musk disrupt the auto and area sectors with Tesla and SpaceX, respectively, he’s charging into medical expertise with Neuralink and transportation with the Boring Co.
He additionally dove into politics, turning into the highest Republican donor final yr, and briefly becoming a member of the Trump administration. He feuded with the president this summer season, however they’ve proven some indicators of warming up these days.
Whereas Musk has a “different kind of set of values,” Suleyman mentioned, “I kind of like that he speaks his mind. He’s very unfiltered.”
