Inflection AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on building modern AI, DeepMind origins, and much more | E1794
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 18 August 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Today’s show:
Inflection AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman joins Jason to discuss DeepMind’s influence on AI (1:17), the hardware revolution (26:27), the foundation of Inflection AI (49:45), and much more!
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(0:00) Inflection’s CEO Mustafa Suleyman joins Jason
(1:17) Life before DeepMind
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(10:05) DeepMind’s origin story
(15:58) The pitch to Peter Thiel and feedback from early investors
(19:34) DeepMind’s first project
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(26:27) The hardware revolution and growth in computing
(30:15) DeepMind’s acquisition by Google and strategy for building an elite team
(34:14) Major achievements at Google
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(39:22) Google’s cautious approach to releasing an AI product
(44:59) Regulatory issues and fair compensation
(49:45) The foundation of Inflection AI
(59:50) The downsides of AI and Mustafa’s book, The Coming Wave
(1:08:58) Complacency in tech and Mustafa’s thoughts on remote work
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| 0:00.0 | Apparently, if I fancy getting married anytime soon, you're available for that too, right? |
| 0:03.8 | Apparently, the world's greatest, uh, |
| 0:06.0 | efficient is available. |
| 0:07.6 | If you can find a woman who will marry you, Mustafa, uh, |
| 0:10.8 | but you can start out. |
| 0:12.0 | Oh, you already got that accomplished. |
| 0:14.0 | No, no, I'm struggling with that. |
| 0:15.4 | I'm very much single. |
| 0:16.6 | So I mean, if you want to marry me to my collection, you, |
| 0:19.5 | you, you are married to your startup. |
| 0:21.5 | You reach a billion dollars. |
| 0:22.9 | I can tell you who you're married to for the next 10 years. |
| 0:25.4 | Absolutely. |
| 0:26.4 | Absolutely. |
| 0:27.3 | I, and you're 40 people over there. |
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| 0:45.8 | Crowdbotics, great ideas can change the world. |
| 0:49.4 | And Crowdbotics is the fastest way to turn those ideas into code. |
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