Mustafa Suleyman

Mustafa Suleyman CBE (born in August 1984[2]) is a British artificial intelligence (AI) entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Microsoft AI, and the co-founder and former head of applied AI at DeepMind, an AI company which was acquired by Google.[3][4] After leaving DeepMind, he co-founded Inflection AI, a machine learning and generative AI company, in 2022.[5][6] Suleyman's Syrian father worked as a taxi driver and his English mother was a nurse.[7] He grew up off Caledonian Road, London, where he lived with his parents and his two younger brothers.[8] Suleyman went to Thornhill Primary School, a state school in Islington, followed by Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet, a boys' grammar school.[8] Around that time, he met his DeepMind co-founder, Demis Hassabis, through his best friend, who was Demis's younger brother. Suleyman shared that he and Hassabis often discussed how they could make a positive impact on the world.[7] Suleyman enrolled to study philosophy and theology at the University of Oxford where he was an undergraduate student at Mansfield College, Oxford, before dropping out at 19.[8] In August 2001, while still a teenager and a "strong atheist",[2] Suleyman helped Mohammed Mamdani establish a telephone counselling service called the Muslim Youth Helpline.[9][10][8] The organization would later become one of the largest mental health support services. Suleyman subsequently worked as a policy officer on human rights for Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, before going on to start Reos Partners, a "systemic change" consultancy that uses methods from conflict resolution to navigate social problems. As a negotiator and facilitator, Mustafa worked for a wide range of clients such as the United Nations, the Dutch government, and the World Wide Fund for Nature.[11][12]