"He described Altman as "courageous," noting that OpenAI is aggressively building out a fleet of AI data centers to handle the massive amount of computing power needed 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.""
"As for Hassabis, Suleyman called him a great 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 also revealed that even though the one-time collaborators are now competitors, they remain good friends and stay in touch regularly. He even texted Hassabis recently to congratulate him on Nano Banana, Gemini 3 and AlphaFold."
Mustafa Suleyman is in regular contact with AI leaders including OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis. He co-founded DeepMind, later co-founded Inflection AI, and joined Microsoft last year. Suleyman described Altman as courageous, praised his rapid construction of AI data centers, and expressed confidence in OpenAI's ability to scale despite heavy investment commitments. Suleyman called Hassabis a great scientist and polymath, noting multiple major contributions and congratulated him on Nano Banana, Gemini 3 and AlphaFold. Suleyman characterized Elon Musk as a bulldozer with extraordinary ability to bend reality to his will.
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