AI Quote of Note: Mustafa Suleyman: "I think everyone gets a little bit caught up in the week-to-week..."

“I think everyone gets a little bit caught up in the week-to-week, day-to-day, or the definitions of these abstract ideas. Just focus on the capabilities. You know, we should really be thinking about these things as Artificial Capable Intelligence. What can it do in practice, and what is the value of that “doing”? I prefer that as a framing versus AGI, because it’s … more measurable, and we can actually look at it very, very explicitly in terms of its economic impact and its impact on work.” - Mustafa Suleyman, on Alex Kantrowitz's "Big Technology" podcast, April 4, 2025.

Mustafa Suleyman is the CEO of Microsoft AI, which he joined in March of 2024. He may be best known as the former head of applied AI at DeepMind, an AI company he co-founded in 2010, and which was acquired by Google in 2014. After leaving DeepMind in 2022, he co-founded Inflection AI, a machine learning and generative AI company.

Suleyman, widely considered a deep thinker and visionary in the field of AI, was born in London in 1984. His father was a Syrian taxi driver and his mother was an English nurse. At the age of 19, he dropped out of Oxford and took on a variety of jobs, first as a policy officer on human rights for the Mayor of London. After this, he worked with organizations such as the United Nations, the World Wide Fund for Nature, and the Dutch government, before focusing on artificial intelligence. In 2023, Suleyman published the bestselling and critically acclaimed The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma.