Founder Profile
Mustafa Suleyman
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Mustafa Suleyman?
Mustafa Suleyman is a founder of Google DeepMind, which was founded in 2010 with Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg.
- Company founded
- Google DeepMind
- Founded
- 2010
- Co-founders
- Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg
Background
Suleyman left Oxford University at 19, helped start the Muslim Youth Helpline, and worked as a policy adviser to London mayor Ken Livingstone before co-founding DeepMind. He came to AI from policy and social enterprise rather than computer science research.
Founding Story
Mustafa Suleyman is a British entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind in 2010 and led its applied AI work, including the Google data center cooling project and NHS health partnerships. He moved to a Google policy role in 2019, left in 2022 to co-found Inflection AI (maker of the Pi chatbot), and became CEO of Microsoft AI in March 2024, making him a direct competitor to his former lab.
Mustafa Suleyman was born in 1984. Education: Thornhill Primary School; Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet.