Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s chief of artificial intelligence, has cautioned businesses hoping to take the lead in cutting-edge AI to be prepared to make investments that only the biggest tech corporations can afford. According to Business Insider, Suleyman stated in an episode of the podcast “Moonshots with Peter Diamandis” that it will take “hundreds of billions of dollars” to compete at the cutting edge of AI over the next five to ten years. The bill goes beyond hardware and data centers, he continued. He added, “not to mention the costs we’re paying for individual researchers or members of technical staff.”
Suleyman likened Microsoft to a “modern construction company,” where massive teams successfully develop enormous amounts of processing capacity, such as AI accelerators and gigawatts of CPUs. He claimed that there are obvious advantages to working for a big company because of its scale.
According to the research, Microsoft has a market capitalization of $3.54 trillion, making it one of the most valuable firms in the world. The company’s sales for the September quarter was $77.7 billion.According to Suleyman, he wants to establish “an absolutely world-class superintelligence team” and make Microsoft “self-sufficient” in developing cutting-edge AI models.
He stated unequivocally that the business does not intend to slow down. Suleyman declared, “We’re absolutely pushing for the frontier.” “Our goal is to create the world’s best and safest superintelligence models.”
He is also worried about smaller businesses’ ability to compete. “It’s hard to say” if startups can actually compete with the major tech companies given how quickly costs are growing.
