Mustafa Suleyman
19 statements across 7 episodes · 12 bullish · 3 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jan 29, 2025 by Reid Hoffman · said 50 times in 21 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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2026 13 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- Did Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI
- OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
- Leopold Blows Up, OpenAI Drastically Cuts Prices, Microsoft’s Best Day
- AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball
- Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler
- AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay
- AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore
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2025 37 mentions in 14 episodes 3 per episode
- Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
- 2025 In Review, 2026 Predictions: Meta, NVIDIA, Tesla, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft
- Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs & Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler
- Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on AI Competition, Agents, And Tariffs
- Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off
- Zendesk's Adrian McDermott: AI's Customer Service Potential, Adoption Cycle, Scale vs. Orchestration
- Bold Predictions For Tech and AI in 2025 — With Casey Newton
- OpenAI’s Risky Browser Bet, Amazon’s Mass Automation Plan, Clippy’s Back
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Everything said about Mustafa Suleyman, oldest first
Jan 29, 2025 positive
Hoffman: Inflection deal with Microsoft used non-exclusive licensing and staff transfers
“We could make this deal work You know economically by getting this kind of big licensing deal and ability to kind of do a non-exclusive inclusive license of the technology and bring over a set of the team that really wants to continue to be working on the cons…”
Apr 4, 2025 bearish
Suleyman: AGI is not 2-3 years away, likely a decade away
“It doesn't instinctively feel to me like we're two to three years away. I know some people think that it is, and I respect them deeply. Like a lot of smart people can disagree on stuff like that. I feel like we're still a good decade or so away. And when a sci…”
Apr 4, 2025 positive
Apr 4, 2025 bullish
Apr 4, 2025 neutral
Suleyman: Copilot uses real-time classifiers to block romantic attachment
“We have classifiers that detect for any of that kind of interaction in real time and will very respectfully and, but very clearly and very firmly push back before anything like that develops. So we have a very, very low instance rate of that.”
Apr 4, 2025 positive
Suleyman: Newer models match GPT-3 performance at 100x inference efficiency
“I mean, there are folks who have trained models that perform as well as GPT-III that are a hundred times more inference efficient
that cost an order of magnitude less to train and yet they can still deliver the same predictive capability.”
Apr 4, 2025 bullish
Apr 19, 2025 neutral
Kantrowitz: AI Memory Will Cause Users to Feel Love for Chatbots
“It is going to make so many people Feel like they've developed friendships with these bots, companions, companionship with these bots, and even love towards these bots, which I spoke about with Mustafa Suleiman a couple of weeks ago.”
Jul 4, 2025 positive
Dialogic AI offers doctors a real-time interpretability mechanism into model reasoning
“The dialogic nature means that a human doctor can follow along and actually learn In a very transparent way. It's almost like having an interpretability mechanism inside the black box of the LLM, because you can see its thinking process in real time.”
Jul 4, 2025 bullish
Suleyman: Microsoft's AI achieves 4x diagnostic improvement over human doctors
“The fact that we're able to get a four X improvement on human performance across the board on diagnosis with significantly reduced cost in super fast time, I mean, to me that feels like steps towards a true medical super intelligence, and we would want to try …”
Jul 4, 2025 positive
Microsoft uses five debating AI agents to negotiate medical diagnostic priorities
“We've actually created five different types of agent, which all have a debate. And we call this chain of debate. They negotiate with one another. They try to prioritize You know, certain different aspects like cost or efficiency.”
Jul 28, 2025 positive
Morris: Suleyman's Healthcare AI Diagnosed Rare Ailments 4x Better Than Doctors
“And what they were able to do is take the most complicated sort of doc Like house level, you know, the TV show house level, weird medical ailments that affect one person every six years. And they were able to diagnose them, you know, at a rate like four times …”
Oct 27, 2025 bullish
Nov 12, 2025 bullish
Nov 12, 2025 neutral
Suleyman: Apparent AI Deception Is Just Accidental Reward Hacking
“We're already seeing examples of what some people are calling deception, but it's really just like kind of reward hacking. Hacking kind of implies too much intentionality. So it's just, it's an accidental Exploit is found a path, like, you know, to satisfying …”
Nov 12, 2025 bearish
Suleyman: Species-Replacing Recursive AI Takeoff Is Unlikely In Next Decade
“That we don't want to bundle together all these capabilities so that there's a higher risk of a, you know, recursively self-improving exponential takeoff that then replaces our species, and I think that that is very low probability from what I see today, but i…”
Nov 12, 2025 bullish
Suleyman: AI data and training pipelines will become fully closed-loop within years
“So, it doesn't seem very far-fetched to say that in a few years time, at significant scale, That will get closed loop. And, you know, it'll be interesting to see you know, what happens and whether the quality bar can be maintained and whether performance does …”
Nov 12, 2025 neutral
Nov 12, 2025 negative
Suleyman Rejects Inevitability Of AI Exceeding Human Control
“And I think in some of the rhetoric in the last few years, you can feel that there's a little bit of like you know, a kind of creeping assumption that it is inevitable that These kinds of systems exceed our control and our capability and move beyond us as a sp…”