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Mustafa Suleyman

Mustafa Suleyman

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About Mustafa Suleyman

Mustafa Suleyman is the CEO of Microsoft AI. He co-founded DeepMind in 2010 (acquired by Google for $650M), founded Inflection AI, then joined Microsoft when it acquired Inflection's team in 2024.

Career Highlights

  • Microsoft AI (2024-present): CEO, leading AI strategy for 250K employees
  • Inflection AI (2022-2024): Co-founder and CEO, raised $1.5B
  • DeepMind (2010-2022): Co-founder, led applied AI
  • Google acquisition (2014): $650M, initially justified by data center cooling optimization

Notable Positions

On the Agent Paradigm Shift

"The transition from operating systems, search engines, and apps to AI agents and companions is the defining paradigm shift - and Microsoft is positioning all 250,000 employees around this transition."

On the Modern Turing Test

Suleyman's practical measure of AI capability:

"Can an AI agent 10x a $100K investment? We'll see agents pass this test within 2 years - by 2027."

On What He Got Wrong

Humble about predictions:

"AI inference costs have dropped 100-1000x in two years - a pace I completely failed to predict, especially the impact of open-source models like Llama."

On the DeepMind Years

"I spent a decade at DeepMind during 'the flat part of the exponential' - when breakthrough papers were celebrated but commercial applications remained elusive."

Key Quotes

  • "Modern Turing Test: turn $100K into $1M."
  • "The agent paradigm shift is the biggest in history."
  • "I spent a decade on the flat part of the exponential."