Microsoft lost the AI race when it made Mustafa Suleyman its CEO of AI.
@pmddomingos I know they should have made Simba the CEO instead
@pmddomingos My experience is that a single pass with "check the references and ensure any unclear or potentially false claim is checked and removed if wrong" works. Do you think that hallucinations are still a major problem with well designed GenAI pipelines using frontier models?
@pmddomingos Microsoft's decline started when it adopted a stack-based rating system. This system undermines teamwork and cooperation between people to the bare minimum, as helping others is seen as working against one's own interests. The decline was exaggerated by the ever-increasing
@pmddomingos If I can get a penny every time an LLM replies back with, "You're absolutely right!" since 2023, I'd have millions by now.
@pmddomingos We interviewed Mustafa when we were looking at investing in his business (which he bailed on and joined MSFT) Agree with your conclusion
@pmddomingos Was Microsoft ever in the race?
@pmddomingos “Getting things a bit wrong” is like being a bit pregnant.
@pmddomingos Microsoft wasn’t in the race to lose it.
@pmddomingos Google was wise enough to get rid of him and look at their AI efforts taking of 👏
@pmddomingos Google built transformers. OpenAI built copilots. Mustafa built podcasts. AI races are won with chips and models, not interviews and manifestos.
@pmddomingos My Thought / 💭 Reflection Dropped by @OpenAI He should’ve gone all the way with Inflection and Pi. They had the recipe: human emotional AI + indefatigable machine endurance. But instead, the plot shifted. Either they got cold feet. Or the world wasn’t ready. Or the system
@pmddomingos Wait, Microsoft was actually competing? Looked more like sponsoring hallucinations.
@pmddomingos They were in the race?
@pmddomingos The old internet got hyperthymesia. The new internet hallucinates.
@pmddomingos Except there was a massive breakthrough in hallucinations about 2 weeks ago
@pmddomingos Yeah don't think so. Unlikely that this comment from him makes any difference at MS. If he was still heading is startup, sure. Enterprises don't give a shit what he said. They've been paying for the Select program for decades.
@pmddomingos I'm not sure about the consumer AI story, and I believe the inflection deal ROÍ was miscalculated. The CEO of AI title doesn’t make sense whatsoever. There are many AI teams within Microsoft. However, as a platform, Microsoft is killing it. They should continue to double down on
@pmddomingos He was wrong. So were Sam Altman and Dario Amodei. The only persons who havent been proven wrong are the real scientists, Yann, Geoffrey, Feifei, etc. these CEOs make statements for profit and VC attention. Anyone really working in the field knows not to trust them.
@pmddomingos You should see what’s posted about him on Blind by employees. I’ll just leave that here.
@pmddomingos Microsoft under @satyanadella will never be able to make something novel that will be a good surprise for the community. Always reactionary and ticking checkboxes is the culture. Not pursuing excellence, mediocrity. Satya will quietly oversee Microsoft makes big deals with big
@pmddomingos Microsoft is lost for good. It is possible they will lose even other apps like office even operating systems to AI. Why would anybody think some AI calls will go to Azure in the future. All of them go directly to massive datacenters.
@pmddomingos he dumb but hallucination has been mostly solved via tooling.
@pmddomingos Yet hes probably wrote one of the most influential and important books on AI.
@pmddomingos Them being in the race was through open AI partnership. Neither the partnership is going well, nor the fact that only open AI haa sota models. Major labs have caught up, if not surpassed them. Microsoft is Jack barker’s company. All in on sales, while product takes a backseat
@pmddomingos Microsoft's AI strategy is not to create models like OpenAI because they know that it's almost impossible to win. The strategy is to create AI products like Copilot on all their products, choosing the best model on the market, no matter if it's GPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.
@pmddomingos Sama under the umbrella. Anthropic deals in the background as Satya next move. do you still think msft put all of their egg in one bucket(on ceo of AI)?
@pmddomingos It’s a race to a bottom so good for them
@pmddomingos I didn’t even know MS was in the race. I mean they own a large chunk of OAI right?
@pmddomingos Don’t they have open ai to do that?
@pmddomingos Where is their Model? Microsoft is just a cloud host/llm wrapper.
@pmddomingos Microsoft lost the AI race when they closed a multibillion deal with openai for exclusive access to their models and deepseek cooked their entire thesis overnight. Azure is making paper tho.
@pmddomingos the year is still 2025
@pmddomingos @pmddomingos SOMEONE GET A DOCTOR IN HERE!~!!!!!!!!!!!!
@pmddomingos Ah, according to this metric, all big players already lost the race multiple times.
@pmddomingos It sounds like he was hallucinating when he said that !
@pmddomingos Suleyman co-founded DeepMind. Winning the AI race isn’t just about who ships the flashiest model first—it’s also about building trustworthy systems. Speed loses all importance if integrity is lost in probabilistic guessing game.
