Mustafa Suleyman: OpenAI's Biggest Threat

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this man is the biggest threat to open AI we will train models that are very very much larger than gpt4 before anybody else in the world this name is muleiman and he's the co-founder of two multi-billion dollar AI companies but Mustafa isn't going just after openai he's going after Google tool we've learned to speak Google no but now that has to stop that's over that if I was Google I would be pretty worried recently Mustafa spent over 1.3 billion dollars on a new AI supercomputer and thanks to his exclusive partnership with Nvidia he will have the hardware before open AI or any other competitor Mustafa managed to secure some of the most powerful investors in the world including Phil Gates Eric Schmidt Nvidia and Reed Hoffman so if there's someone who can take open ai's number one spot is Mustafa suleimba on the surface open AI might seem Invincible they've built the fastest growing product in history and they have the backing of a trillion dollar Corporation however a lot of people think that the downfall of open AI has already begun in 2022 the company reported a loss of 540 million dollars even today openai is spending around seven hundred thousand dollars every single day just to keep chair GPT running what's worse if we look at the Google Trends chart we can see that the hype and excitement is beginning to slow down in fact the traffic to Chai gpd's website has dropped for the third month in a row some people even begin to speculate that chair GPT is becoming worse what is that drift ham people were talking about that with chat gpt4 that results have deprecated so I think with the chat gbt thing it's probably that they basically serve their best model which is expensive to serve right and then once people are coming back frequently they'll use they'll set up a smaller bottle which is cheap but this isn't just speculation researchers from Stanford and UC Berkeley found that gpt4 from June was actually worse than gpd4 from March Sam Altman said multiple times that open AI is not currently training gpd5 that could turn out to be a major mistake a mistake that's playing right into mustafa's hand there aren't many people in history who have built two multi-billion dollar startups back to but just like other Tech Giants Mustafa was once a simple College Dropout in 2010 the field of AI was basically non-existent people would look at you weird if you said the words neural network or AI it was also just two years after the big stock market crash of 2008 so you had to be crazy to start an AI company and that's exactly what Mustafa was about to do I was starting to keep an eye on Facebook's price and I was like this is incredible around the same time Mustafa met Demis asabes while they were playing poker Demis explained the concept of artificial intelligence to Mustafa together they decided to create a deep mind with the goal of replicating human intelligence in other words they wanted to create AGI something so impossible back then it's like saying you're building a time machine but Mustafa and Demis persisted they operated in stealth mode which means they didn't share anything with the public we I mean we operated in stealth for most of our entire period and we had she didn't even announce our investors in 2013 however deepmind achieved its first major breakthrough using deep reinforcement learning they've trained an AI to Plate old Atari games such as pong or Space Invaders little did Mustafa know that this seemingly insignificant AI made to play video games would completely change his life you know Larry Page had seen the demo and just emailed us called page google.com and was like you know you guys should come and be part of us while getting a cold email from the founder of Google is amazing what followed was even more mind-blowing if you're new to the channel my name is David Andre and I make interesting videos like this one so if you want to learn more about AI Please Subscribe Larry Page presented Mustafa and Demis with an offer they couldn't refuse alari made us an incredible offer to be able to do that we were required for 650 million dollars um free Revenue obviously yeah pretty great deal 650 million dollars for an AI company that doesn't make any money man Larry Page really has balls but not everybody was happy about this deal at the time Google had a quite Deep Mind and so Google deepmind together had about three quarters of all the AI talents in the world Elon Musk just like Peter Phil was an early investor in deepmind but he had a different plan Elon and Peter all of our investors wanted us to stay independent what was the reason though why did Elon Musk try so hard to prevent Google from buying deepmind Larry Page and I used to be close friends and I would stay at his house in Palo Alto while Elon was worried about AI safety Larry didn't care he wanted to create a super intelligent AI God I said what about you know we were going to make sure Humanity's okay here and they called me a speciesist that's when Elon had enough he called Peter Phil and proposed an idea to start a new AI company one that could rival deepmind and Elon already had the name it would be called open AI but Mustafa wasn't worried after all they had the best AI researchers in the world and now deepmind gained access to Google's infinite money and their Cutting Edge supercomputers nobody was thinking about some small competing startup everyone was focused on Deep Mind and the incredible things they were doing the first success was using AI to optimize Google's data centers which saved the company Millions but deepmind's greatest achievement was right around the corner in 2016 Mustafa and the team created alphaco an AI system trained to play the ancient Chinese game of gold the team at deepmind challenged the world's best go player and not only did the AI win it completely smoked him winning four out of the five games alphago was by far the biggest thing that ever happened in the AI field overnight deepmind became one of the most respected companies in the world something that couldn't be said for this failing San Francisco startup however openai was patient Sam Altman knew that his time would come two years after alphago deepmind had another major success Alpha fault could predict the shape type of proteins with just massive implications in the healthcare industry while it seemed that deepmind was on top of the world inside of the company things weren't looking so good after the Google acquisition the team at deepmind wanted to be autonomous but Larry Page wanted them to merge with other AI teams within Google this created a bunch of conflict on top of that Mustafa Suleiman was accused of having an aggressive management style apparently he was too strict with his employees pushing them too hard because of this Mustafa left deepmind in 2019 after taking a few months off he joined Google as the vice president of AI product management however things didn't get any better I was there at Google and working on the Lambda team right so that I spent a year and a half working on that team and we basically had chat gbt before Chachi PT it was incredible Mustafa with other AI researchers tried to convince Google to launch some of the AI products they had however Google was too careful because of this AI Talent began leaving the company every single person behind the famous attention is all you need paper ended up leaving Google um I do think they have a bit of a innovator's dilemma problem to put it simply Google was scared to release any new AI products especially when these new products include AI chatbots that directly compete against Google search this was extremely painful for Mustafa imagine spending years of your life creating a new technology that could change the world only for it to be shelved to add fuel to the fire the ones small startup open AI was releasing new discoveries and breakthroughs left and right in 2019 they released gpd2 which shocked the AI Community even the Godfather of AI was impressed gpt2 which was one of the earlier language Brands amazed me in the same year Microsoft invested 1 billion dollars into open AI all of this was happening while Mustafa was stuck at Google watching as open AI slowly took the number one spot away from deepmind I Can Only Imagine imagine how frustrating that must have been a year later in 2020 openai made another huge leap with the release of gpt3 this caused Microsoft to put another 2 billion into open AI the AI field has turned into a firing ground for big Tech Google and deepmind versus Microsoft and open Ai and everyone knew that Microsoft was winning but Mustafa Suleiman isn't the kind of person to just stand on the sidelines and watch and so after eight long years he decided to leave Google it was time for openai to have some competition Mustafa joined forces with Reed Hoffman the creator of LinkedIn and started a new company in flexion Ai and then of course Reed Hoffman who's been my one of my closest friends for like 10 years and we've always talked about starting something together and I was like this is the obvious thing now is the time for sure a few months later the first wave of Investments for the Bill Gates Greylock Eric Schmidt Microsoft Demi sasabis and even will I am in total inflate election has raised 225 million dollars in the first round of funding and Mustafa used that money to hire a team of killers we were extremely focused on hiring the best phds and postdocs actually and I've carried that through to how I hire inflection but Mustafa was only getting started he doesn't want inflection to be yet another AI startup he wants to be at the top and his next move shocked everybody on June 29 2023 inflection AI announced a second round of funding 1.3 billion dollars instead of playing it safe and spending that money over a few years Mustafa took the billion and instantly purchased 22 000 gpus from Nvidia this means that inflection is building the largest AI cluster in the world bigger than meta bigger than Apple bigger than Google and bigger than open Ai and what Mustafa is planning to do with this computer is nothing short of insane just look at his latest product by a free AI chatbot that's already better than GPT 3.5 which is the free version of jgpd however thanks to his giant supercomputer mustafa's next language model will be significantly better than even the best AI model of today gbd4 this new language model will finish training in early 2024 and once inflection updates by and gives it access to the internet all of us will quickly stop using Google Google is already a conversation it's just an appallingly painful one but you don't have to be Mustafa Suleiman to benefit from the AI Revolution if you are ambitious if you can adapt quickly and if you start taking AI seriously you have the potential to not only change your life but to change the world it really is going to be about how hungry and dynamic you are as an individual