Suleyman: AI Training Is Not Data-Constrained Due To Synthetic Data
Mustafa Suleyman · Could LLMs Be The Route To Superintelligence? — With Mustafa Suleyman · Nov 12, 2025 · at 8:53
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, responds to Alex Kantrowitz's question about whether AI progress is stalling due to synthetic data limitations and data scarcity.
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“We are not data constrained right now, we're generating vast amounts of high quality synthetic data, which is proving to be useful.”
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