Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman stated he’s in common contact along 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 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 huge quantity of computing energy wanted to run ChatGPT.
“He could nicely turn into one of many nice entrepreneurs of our technology,” Suleyman added. “He’s definitely achieved loads. He’s constructing knowledge facilities at a quicker fee than anybody within the business, and if he can pull it off, it is going to 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 known as him an awesome scientist. “I feel he’s an awesome thinker and he’s polymath. He’s made huge contributions within the discipline, a number of occasions. He’s actually distinctive.”
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 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 via his startup xAI. Suleyman known as him a “bulldozer.”
“He’s sort of acquired superhuman capabilities to bend actuality to his will and has, you realize, fairly unimaginable monitor report,” he added. “And someway he type of largely manages to tug off what seems to be inconceivable.”
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 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.”
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