Mustafa Suleyman

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.

Me and Reid Hoffman and my friend Karen Simonian started Inflection, and we created Pi, the personal intelligence.

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