By Lee Chong Ming
Publication Date: 2025-12-18 05:39:00
Microsoft AI CEO says there’s a huge price to pay for staying in the AI game.
Mustafa Suleyman said in an episode of the “Moonshots with Peter Diamandis” podcast published Wednesday that it’s going to cost “hundreds of billions of dollars” to compete at the frontier of AI over the next five to 10 years.
“Not to mention the prices that we’re paying for individual researchers or members of technical staff,” he added.
Suleyman compared Microsoft to a “modern construction company,” where hundreds of thousands of workers are building gigawatts of CPUs and AI accelerators.
The scale of investment that is required is huge, and “clearly there’s a structural advantage by being inside a big company,” he said.
