CEO, Microsoft AI & Co-Founder, Inflection AI and DeepMind
Mustafa Suleyman: Biography at a Glance
- Mustafa Suleyman is the co-founder of DeepMind, a leading AI company that was acquired by Google, and co-founder of Inflection AI, a company creating a personal AI designed to be a kind and supportive companion.
- Mustafa currently leads Microsoft's AI division where he is responsible for expanding a consumer A.I. business, including Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot, Bing search engine, and Edge internet browser.
- At DeepMind, Mustafa served as the Head of Applied AI and ran a division called DeepMind for Google, responsible for integrating the company's technology into various Google products.
- He then joined Google full-time and held the position of VP of AI Products & AI Policy before joining Greylock as a Venture Partner, specializing in AI investing.
- Mustafa is the author of The Coming Wave which offers an urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that a wave of fast-developing technologies poses to global order and how we might contain them.
- He was named to the TIME 100 list of Most Influential Leaders in AI for his long-term approach to transforming the world with AI.
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Mustafa Suleyman leads Microsoft’s consumer AI business. Reporting directly to Microsoft’s CEO, Mustafa is responsible for expanding Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot, Bing search engine, and Edge internet browser.
Mustafa is the co-founder of Inflection AI, an AI-first consumer software company. Before that, he co-founded DeepMind, a leading AI company that was acquired by Google. There he was Head of Applied AI and ran a division called DeepMind for Google which was responsible for integrating the company’s technology across a wide range of Google products. He joined Google full-time in 2019, becoming VP of AI products & AI policy. In 2022, he joined Greylock as a Venture Partner, where he specializes in AI investing. He is the author of The Coming Wave, published by Crown in the US in September 2023. He is also on the Board of The Economist newspaper and is a Senior Fellow at The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, at Harvard Kennedy School.
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The Coming Wave
Mustafa Suleyman warns that we are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, part of Google, Mustafa has been at the centre of this revolution.
In this conversation, Mustafa explores the unprecedented risks that a wave of fast-developing technologies poses to global order and shares how we might contain them while we have the chance. The ultimate AI insider, Mustafa is well equipped to educate audiences on the “containment problem” — the task of maintaining control over powerful technologies—as the essential challenge of our age.
