Sunday, March 31, 2024

Pi: Personal AI; Mustafa Suleyman interview, book; Microsoft

Mustafa Suleyman: The AI Pioneer Reveals the Future in 'The Coming Wave' | Intelligence Squared - YouTube
Mustafa Suleyman is the ultimate AI insider. As co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, he is one of the pioneers of the artificial intelligence revolution, potentially the single greatest accelerant of progress in history .Investors in Inflection AI include the likes of Microsoft, Nvidia and Bill Gates.

from transcript:

"over the last 10 years every single year the amount of compute
that we have used for The Cutting Edge AI models has grown by 10x so 10x 10x
10x 10x 10 times in a row now that is unprecedented in technology history
nowhere else have we seen a trajectory anything like that over the next five
years We'll add probably three or four orders of magnitude basically another thousand times the compute that you see
used today to produce gbt4 or the chat model that you might interact with..."


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Mustafa Suleyman - Wikipedia

Mustafa Suleyman CBE (born August 1984) is a British artificial intelligence (AI) entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Microsoft AI, and the co-founder and former head of applied AI at DeepMind, an AI company acquired by Google.[1][2] After leaving DeepMind, he co-founded Inflection AI, a machine learning and generative AI company, in 2022.






Microsoft paid Inflection AI $620 million for the nonexclusive right to sell access to the Inflection AI model through its Azure Cloud over a multiyear period, the companies confirm. Microsoft paid an additional $33 million for a waver from claims against it related to hiring Inflection employees.



The company was founded by entrepreneurs Reid Hoffman, Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan in 2022. The company has collaborated with Nvidia to develop hardware for generative artificial intelligence.[7]

In June 2023, the company raised $1.3 billion USD at $4 billion valuation.[7]

In March 2024, Suleyman and Simonyan announced their departure from the company in order to start Microsoft AI




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