Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman stated 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.
In reality, Suleyman and Hassabis as soon as labored collectively as cofounders of DeepMind, although Suleyman went on to cofound Inflection AI then joined Microsoft final 12 months.
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 just lately accomplished a for-profit restructuring and revamped its partnership with Microsoft.
He described Altman as “brave,” noting that OpenAI is aggressively constructing out a fleet of AI knowledge facilities to deal with the large quantity of computing energy wanted to run ChatGPT.
“He could effectively change into one of many nice entrepreneurs of our technology,” Suleyman added. “He’s definitely achieved rather a lot. He’s constructing knowledge facilities at a quicker fee than anybody within the business, and if he can pull it off, will probably be fairly dramatic.”
And regardless of issues that OpenAI’s funding commitments far outstrip its present degree of income, he stated he has each confidence the corporate can pull it off.
As for Hassabis, Suleyman referred to as him an amazing scientist. “I feel he’s an amazing thinker and he’s polymath. He’s made huge contributions within the subject, a number of occasions. He’s really distinctive.”
Suleyman additionally revealed that regardless that the one-time collaborators at the moment are rivals, they continue to be good buddies and keep in contact usually. He even texted Hassabis just lately 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 means of his startup xAI. Suleyman referred to as him a “bulldozer.”
“He’s sort of obtained superhuman capabilities to bend actuality to his will and has, you recognize, fairly unimaginable observe document,” he added. “And by some means he type of largely manages to drag off what seems to be not possible.”
Not solely did Musk disrupt the auto and house sectors with Tesla and SpaceX, respectively, he’s charging into medical know-how with Neuralink and transportation with the Boring Co.
He additionally dove into politics, turning into the highest Republican donor final 12 months, and briefly becoming a member of the Trump administration. He feuded with the president this summer time, however they’ve proven some indicators of warming up these days.
Whereas Musk has a “completely different sort of set of values,” Suleyman stated, “I sort of like that he speaks his thoughts. He’s very unfiltered.”
