Microsoft AI Boss Calls Musk a "Bulldozer" Who "Bends Reality to His Will"

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has described OpenAI’s Sam Altman as “courageous,” noting that OpenAI is aggressively building out a fleet of AI data centers to handle the massive amount of computing power needed to run ChatGPT, Jason Ma reported for Fortune.

Suleyman said that Musk somehow sort of mostly manages to pull off the seemingly impossible. (Photo: Christopher Wilson Wikimedia Commons)

“He may well turn out to be one of the great entrepreneurs of our generation,” Suleyman added.

“He’s certainly achieved a lot. He’s building data centers at a faster rate than anyone in the industry, and if he can pull it off, it will be pretty dramatic.”

As for Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, Suleyman said he is a great scientist. “I think he’s a great thinker and a good polymath. He’s made massive contributions in the field multiple times. He’s truly exceptional.”

Asked about Elon Musk, who is an OpenAI co-founder but has since fallen out with Altman and is pursuing AI through his startup xAI, Suleyman called him a “bulldozer.”

He added: “He’s kind of got superhuman capabilities to bend reality to his will and has, you know, a pretty incredible track record. And somehow he sort of mostly manages to pull off what appears to be impossible.”