Mustafa Suleyman

I think that, you know, if you look at the contributions in the last, say, century or even couple centuries from great poets and philosophers and musicians, storytellers, creators, inventors,

most of them have nothing to do with religion, and yet they've taught us most about ourselves and our societies.

Well, we were at a time when I had sort of just left Google.

If you really want to understand who we are as a people, as humans, how our societies function, you don't turn to religion anymore, unfortunately.

I'd been working on Lambda, which was Google's conversational search AI that we ended up never launching.

It then got launched as Bard, and then it became Gemini.

Some people will obviously disagree with that and full respect to them for their opinion, but that's kind of where I land on it these days.

And I was sort of frustrated because I was like, these technologies are ready for prime time.

They're...

They're ready for feedback from the real world.

They're not perfect.

They make a lot of mistakes.

But we're technology creators.

We've got to put things out there and see how it lands, iterate quickly, listen to what people have to say.

And it was just frustrating that we just couldn't get things done at Google at that time.

Well, we were at a time when I had sort of just left Google.

And so I realized...

It has to be done.

I'd been working on Lambda, which was Google's conversational search AI that we ended up never launching.

It's time to start a company.