What is Mustafa Suleyman’s IQ?
He left Oxford at 19 and co-founded DeepMind at 26. No IQ test is public.
Mustafa Suleyman’s IQ has never been published: no test result exists and no source puts a number on it. What is documented is a selective grammar school, an Oxford course he left at 19, the 2010 co-founding of DeepMind, a CBE in 2019 and, as of October 2026, the chief executive job at Microsoft AI.
Mustafa Suleyman’s estimated IQ
- Educated at Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet, a selective state grammar school for boys, then enrolled at Mansfield College, University of Oxford, to study philosophy and theology, leaving at 19, so the academic record ends early and carries no degree class to anchor the range.
- Co-founded DeepMind in November 2010 with Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg and became its chief product officer, then head of applied AI after Google’s acquisition of the company, confirmed on January 26, 2014 at a reported price of $400 million to $650 million.
- Co-founded Inflection AI in March 2022 with Reid Hoffman and Karén Simonyan and, on March 19, 2024, was named executive vice president and CEO of Microsoft AI, reporting to CEO Satya Nadella; Microsoft AI’s own website names him CEO as of October 2026.
- Appointed CBE in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to the UK technology industry, and named to TIME’s TIME100 AI lists in 2023 and 2024.
- Co-author, with Michael Bhaskar, of The Coming Wave (September 2023), shortlisted for the 2023 Financial Times Business Book of the Year award.
No IQ, SAT or entrance-exam score has been published for Mustafa Suleyman, so this range is inferred from a career record, not a test. That record has no degree, doctorate or research-paper list to anchor the top of the band, and building and running companies rewards product skill, leadership and persuasion as well as reasoning, so the range sits below the 145–160 given to the two AI founders on this site who hold completed doctorates.
- Born
- August 1984, London (no day given by Wikipedia or Wikidata)
- Education
- Thornhill Primary School, Islington; Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet; Mansfield College, Oxford (philosophy and theology, no degree)
- Known for
- Co-founding DeepMind (2010) and Inflection AI (2022); CEO of Microsoft AI
- Current role
- CEO, Microsoft AI (as of October 2026)
- Honors
- CBE (2019 New Year Honours); TIME100 AI (2023 and 2024)
- Book
- The Coming Wave, with Michael Bhaskar (September 2023); shortlisted for the 2023 Financial Times Business Book of the Year award
- Circulating IQ figure
- None: no published figure or test result
- Test record
- None published: no IQ, SAT or entrance-exam score
What an IQ of 135–150 actually means
Set the claim aside for a moment. If someone genuinely scored in this range, here is what that would represent.
| Score range | Classification | Share of people | What it indicates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 85 – 114 | Average | ~68% | The range most people fall into. |
| 115 – 129 | Above average | ~13.6% | Roughly one person in seven. |
| 130 – 144 | Gifted | ~2% | The threshold most high-IQ societies use. |
| Above 144 | Highly gifted | ~0.1% | Figures above this range are extrapolated from the curve rather than measured. |
Percentages are approximate and describe a normal distribution. The same number means different things on tests with different standard deviations.
Thirty questions gives you a measured position on this exact scale — your score, your percentile and the ability breakdown behind it.
Find out in 30 minutes →Who Mustafa Suleyman is
How smart is Mustafa Suleyman, judged only by what can be checked? He was born in August 1984 in London, according to Wikipedia; Wikidata gives the same month, with no day. He went to Thornhill Primary School, a state school in Islington, and then to Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet, which Wikipedia describes as a selective state grammar school and academy for boys aged 11–18. He enrolled at Mansfield College, University of Oxford, to study philosophy and theology, according to Wikipedia and The Week, and left at 19 without a degree to help set up a telephone counselling service, according to Edge’s biography of him; The Week places his departure in his second year.
The service was the Muslim Youth Helpline, a national helpline registered as a charity that dates its own founding to 2001; Wikipedia names Suleyman and Mohammed Mamdani as its founders. He then worked as a policy officer on human rights for Ken Livingstone, then Mayor of London, and helped start Reos Partners, a consultancy that uses conflict-resolution methods to work on systemic change, according to Wikipedia and Edge.
In November 2010 he co-founded DeepMind in the UK with Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg, and became its chief product officer. Google confirmed its acquisition of the company on January 26, 2014, for a price reported at between $400 million and $650 million. Suleyman later became head of applied AI at DeepMind, by then part of Google, and left Google in January 2022 to join Greylock Partners as a venture partner. In March 2022 he co-founded Inflection AI with Reid Hoffman and Karén Simonyan; its first widely released product was the chatbot Pi, according to Wikipedia.
On March 19, 2024, Microsoft announced that he would be executive vice president and CEO of Microsoft AI, reporting to chief executive Satya Nadella, with Karén Simonyan joining as chief scientist. As of October 2026, Microsoft AI’s home page signs its opening statement with his name and the title CEO Microsoft AI, and Penguin’s author biography for his book also calls him CEO of Microsoft AI. He co-wrote The Coming Wave with Michael Bhaskar (September 2023), was appointed CBE in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to the UK technology industry, according to Wikipedia’s list of that year’s honors, and was named to the TIME100 AI list in 2023 and again in 2024. Mustafa Suleyman’s estimated IQ here, 135–150, is inferred from that record and from nothing measured.
By Elora Mercer, Celebrity Research WriterFigures checked by Leon Falkner, Data & Research AnalystReviewed by Aarav Vardhan, Editor-in-Chief · Last reviewed October 2026
Mustafa Suleyman: the documented record
The estimate above rests on this record. Every entry here is a matter of public fact, which is more than can be said for the number itself.
- August 1984Born in London.
- 2001The Muslim Youth Helpline, a national telephone helpline registered as a charity, is established; Wikipedia names Suleyman as a co-founder.
- Age 19Leaves Mansfield College, Oxford, without a degree, after enrolling to study philosophy and theology.
- November 2010Co-founds DeepMind with Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg; becomes chief product officer.
- January 26, 2014Google confirms its acquisition of DeepMind, at a reported $400 million to $650 million; Suleyman later becomes head of applied AI.
- 2019Appointed CBE in the New Year Honours for services to the UK technology industry.
- January 2022Leaves Google and joins Greylock Partners as a venture partner.
- March 2022Co-founds Inflection AI with Reid Hoffman and Karén Simonyan.
- 2023Publishes The Coming Wave with Michael Bhaskar in September; named to the TIME100 AI list.
- March 19, 2024Microsoft announces him as executive vice president and CEO of Microsoft AI; named to the TIME100 AI list again in 2024.
- October 2026Listed as CEO of Microsoft AI on the company’s website.
Why no figure circulates
Following a claim back to its first appearance is the part almost nobody does — and it is what most people are actually asking.
Mustafa Suleyman’s IQ is not a number anyone has measured or published. People who type “mustafa suleyman iq,” “mustafa suleyman iq level,” “how smart is mustafa suleyman” or “mustafa suleyman iq vs demis hassabis” find biographies, interviews and coverage of Microsoft AI, not a score, so there is no Mustafa Suleyman IQ score to trace to a source. What does sit beside his name is intelligence of a different kind: Fortune reported in June 2023 that the “modern Turing test” he proposes asks an AI to turn $100,000 into $1 million, a test for software, and an AI result is not a person’s IQ, as AI scoring on an IQ-style test is not an IQ explains. For how celebrity numbers usually take hold, see where celebrity IQ numbers come from.
Placed among this site’s business profiles, the 135–150 estimated here for Mustafa Suleyman’s IQ level matches Sundar Pichai’s 135–150 and overlaps Sam Altman’s 138–150: all three are judged on a technology career, and none has a published test score. It sits just below the 140–155 given to Alexandr Wang, whose file adds dated national-contest results from his teens, and below the 145–160 given to Demis Hassabis and Dario Amodei, whose records add completed doctorates. The comparison that drives many of the queries, Suleyman against Hassabis, is a comparison of evidence more than of people: the two co-founded DeepMind in 2010 and both attended Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet, but Hassabis’s file adds master standard in chess at 13 (an Elo rating of 2300), a Cambridge double first in 1997, a UCL doctorate in 2009 and the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Suleyman’s record contains none of those, and a thinner paper trail is not a lower ability, which is why his band is wide and overlaps Hassabis’s only at the top.
A missing degree says nothing by itself about IQ in either direction: group averages by schooling, such as those in average IQ by education level, describe populations, not one person who left a course at 19. That is why this page reads Suleyman’s file through what he built, and gives a band centered on a score around 140 rather than a point value. Every figure here is an inference from public, documented achievement; none is a statement that Mustafa Suleyman has any particular IQ.
How we read a number →Encyclopedia and database entries, Microsoft’s announcement, the publisher’s author biography and press profiles state no IQ figure and cite no test.
Entry for Mustafa Suleyman, “British entrepreneur (born 1984)”: born August 1984 (month precision) in London, citizen of the United Kingdom, educated at Thornhill Primary School, Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet and the University of Oxford; employers include Google DeepMind, Inflection AI, Greylock Partners and Microsoft AI; award received: Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Born August 1984 in London; Thornhill Primary and Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet (a selective state grammar school and academy for boys aged 11–18); Oxford, Mansfield College, philosophy and theology, left at 19; Livingstone, Reos Partners, DeepMind (founded November 2010, acquired January 26, 2014 at a reported $400–650 million), Google until January 2022, Inflection AI (March 2022), The Coming Wave (September 2023, FT shortlist 2023), TIME100 AI 2023 and 2024. The CBE is listed in the 2019 New Year Honours (Wikipedia), as “Mustafa Suleyman – For services to the UK Technology Industry” under the CBE heading, and in Wikidata; it rests on these two sources here. No IQ test mentioned.
The blog post says he will be EVP and CEO, Microsoft AI, reporting to the Microsoft CEO, with Karén Simonyan joining as Chief Scientist. The microsoft.ai home page ends its opening statement with the signature “Mustafa Suleyman, CEO Microsoft AI.”
Edge: left Oxford at 19 to help set up a telephone counselling service; policy officer for Mayor Ken Livingstone; helped start Reos Partners; co-founder and chief product officer of DeepMind; head of applied AI at Google DeepMind. The Week: joined Mansfield College to read philosophy and theology and left in the second year; names the Muslim Youth Helpline; founded DeepMind in 2010 with Shane Legg and Demis Hassabis.
Says the helpline was established in 2001. It does not name its founders, so the link to Suleyman rests on Wikipedia and The Week.
Fortune: Suleyman’s “modern Turing test,” from his upcoming book The Coming Wave, asks an AI to turn $100,000 in seed money into $1 million by devising an original product. Penguin: Vintage edition by Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar, “Shortlisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year,” with an author line calling him “the CEO of Microsoft AI.”
The 2023 collection lists Mustafa Suleyman under Leaders as “CEO and Co-Founder, Inflection AI” (profile by Andrew R. Chow); the 2024 collection lists him under Innovators (profile by Harry Booth).
The sources behind our estimate
The figures that circulate for Mustafa Suleyman, what we were able to confirm, and where the two diverge.
No figure is attached to Mustafa Suleyman’s IQ in the biographies, interviews and press profiles that cover him. Searches such as “Mustafa Suleyman IQ,” “Mustafa Suleyman IQ level,” “how smart is Mustafa Suleyman” and “Mustafa Suleyman IQ vs Demis Hassabis” lead to his career, and to Fortune’s coverage of the “modern Turing test” he proposed for AI, not to a score.
No published IQ test result exists for Mustafa Suleyman. Wikipedia and Wikidata, his Edge biography, Microsoft’s announcement of his role and Penguin’s author biography describe schools, jobs and honors, never a test.
With no circulating figure to weigh against it, the only numbers on this page are the ends of this site’s own range, 135 and 150. It is a band rather than a point because the record shows sustained achievement and contains no measurement.
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Mustafa Suleyman — frequently asked
What is Mustafa Suleyman’s IQ?
Mustafa Suleyman’s IQ is unknown: no IQ test result has been published for him, and no source puts a number on it. This site’s estimate, 135–150, is inferred from his Oxford enrollment, the co-founding of DeepMind and Inflection AI, a 2019 CBE and his role as CEO of Microsoft AI, not from any test.
How smart is Mustafa Suleyman?
The record shows sustained, checkable achievement: co-founding DeepMind in 2010, a CBE in 2019, a book shortlisted for the 2023 Financial Times Business Book of the Year award and, as of October 2026, the CEO role at Microsoft AI. None of that is a measured score, so “smart” here describes achievement, not an IQ result.
Did Mustafa Suleyman take an IQ test?
No Mustafa Suleyman IQ score has been published, and Wikipedia, Wikidata, Edge and Microsoft’s own pages do not mention him sitting a test. His proposed “modern Turing test” (Fortune, June 2023) is a test for AI, not a measure of his own intelligence. No SAT or entrance-exam result is public either.
How does Mustafa Suleyman’s estimated IQ compare with Demis Hassabis’s?
This site’s estimate for Suleyman, 135–150, sits below Demis Hassabis’s 145–160 and overlaps it at the top. The two co-founded DeepMind in 2010, but Hassabis’s record adds a UCL doctorate (2009) and a 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, while Suleyman’s Oxford studies ended at 19. Neither has a published test score.
Did Mustafa Suleyman graduate from Oxford?
No. He enrolled at Mansfield College, University of Oxford, to study philosophy and theology and left at 19 without a degree, according to Wikipedia and Edge; The Week says he left in his second year. He went on to co-found DeepMind and Inflection AI.
What does Mustafa Suleyman do as of October 2026?
As of October 2026 Mustafa Suleyman is CEO of Microsoft AI, a role Microsoft announced on March 19, 2024. He co-founded DeepMind with Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg in 2010 and Inflection AI in 2022, and wrote The Coming Wave with Michael Bhaskar, published in September 2023.
What is Mustafa Suleyman’s book The Coming Wave?
The Coming Wave is a book by Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar, published in September 2023 and shortlisted for the 2023 Financial Times Business Book of the Year award. It is part of the documented record behind this site’s 135–150 estimate of his IQ level, which is inferred from achievement, not from a test.
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