ceo and cofounder mustafa suleyman joins us from london, interestingly. ngratulations on what is frankly a monster around. why did you need to raise that much money? mustafa: thanks, ed. appreciate the congrats. we are really building the cutting edge of machine learning models today in order to create our conversational ai, and that requires vast amounts of compute. we are constructing the largest supercomputer in the world, built on nvidia's chips. that is obviously very expensive. but as a startup, enables us to get the best of both worlds, have the kind of resources you might otherwise expect in a big tech company but also the speed, agility, and super high quality talent you get when you bring together the kinds of folks that have been involved in building the last generation of models, openai, and google. ed: all the attention goes to nvidia because they are participating in this round, mustafa, but you are building the underlying foundation model using their gpu's. mustafa: yeah, we have an incredible partnership with them. they have been fantastic

the company's ceo and co-founder mustafa suleyman is up next. he's with us next. we're live at the new york stock exchange you're watching "closing bell" on cnbc. the first time you made a sale online with godaddy was also the first time you heard of a town named dinosaur, colorado. we just got an order from dinosaur, colorado. start an easy to build, powerful website for free with a partner that always puts you first. start for free at godaddy.com inflection ai announcing it secured $1.3 billion in a new round led by microsoft and a new investor nvidia. joining me now, inflection ai ceo and co-founder mustafa suleyman back here on "closing bell." great to see you. >> great to see you. how's it been? >> great day for you obviously with this raise. tell us what that means. >> it's a fantastic day. it's a great honor and prifb ledge to be backed by some of the leading investors and technologies of the last couple of decades, and to be able to partner with microsoft and nvidia at the same time to deploy a new cluster, we have the largest cluster in the world and that

mustafa suleyman is a co-founder of deepmind which was sold to google in 2014 he's now the co-foundernd ceo of inflection ai, also the author of "the coming wave" that is out in september. we feel lucky to have this interview with you today. >> it's great to be here thanks for having me. >> your book is essentially a warning of sorts about this coming wave of which you say, quote, we're not prepared. >> i don't think we are prepared, and i think it's important for us to be super aware that this is going to be a dramatic transformation. the benefits are going to be unbelievable i mean, we are on the cusp of unleashing an intelligence revolution think about it over the last 20 years, we've all got access to smartphones and laptops, whether you're a billionaire or you earn $20,000 a year we all get to use the same cutting edge hardware, and over the next ten years, maybe 20 years we're all going to get access to intelligence in your pocket the best, the smartest, the most incredible tool you could ever imagine, and that's going to change everything. >> i think we're trying to, you know,