Microsoft AI chief thinks superintelligence is near, but won't take your job
Decoder with Nilay Patel
- Published
- June 8, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 16m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Jun 10, 2026
Discusses openai, anthropic.
Summary
Today I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. This is a real burner of an episode. We covered everything from his approach to training new models to his criticisms of Anthropic talking about Claude as though it is conscious. Of course, we also talked about Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI, how Mustafa is thinking about all the nega…
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Today I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. This is a real burner of an episode. We covered everything from his approach to training new models to his criticisms of Anthropic talking about Claude as though it is conscious. Of course, we also talked about Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI, how Mustafa is thinking about all the negative polling and political pushback around AI right now, and whether any of the consumer products are good enough to overcome it. Like I said,
Themes
- openai
- anthropic