Demis Hassabis
20 statements across 4 episodes · 9 bullish · 6 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Mar 18, 2016 by Puneet Mehta · said 34 times in 19 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (24), Tom Hulme (2), Rory O'Driscoll (2), Matt Clifford (2), Julien Bek (1)
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2026 17 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100K Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Rejected It | The Four Bottlenecks in AI | Anj Midha · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
- Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market
- OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2025 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader
- Cohere Founder, Nick Frosst: How To Compete with OpenAI & Anthropic, and Sam Altman’s AI Disservice · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- AI Fund’s GP, Andrew Ng: LLMs as the Next Geopolitical Weapon & Do Margins Still Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2024 9 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Matt Clifford: The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | E1172 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Guy Podjarny: The Future of AI Software Development - What is Real & What is BS | E1232 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Arvind Narayanan: AI Scaling Myths, The Core Bottlenecks in AI Today & The Future of Models | E1195 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Ethan Mollick: Why OpenAl Abandons Products, The Biggest Opportunities They Have Not Taken | E1184 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Everything said about Demis Hassabis, oldest first
Mar 18, 2016 positive
Msg.ai raised seed round backed by DeepMind and OpenAI founders
“We raised the seed round around October last year. We were fortunate to have you know, some of the best AI people be in that round. The founders of Google, DeepMind, Tamis and Mustafa the CTO of OpenAI, Greg Brockman, the chief scientist at the New York Times,…”
Jul 1, 2024 bearish
Matt Clifford: CCP Restrictions Hinder China From Producing Untrammeled AGI Founders
“And I think in China, as we've seen in other parts of the tech industry in China, the CCP is very nervous about entrepreneurs being given that much room. And so I think that it's not trivial to create the conditions in which a Chinese Sam Altman or a Chinese D…”
Nov 29, 2024 negative
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Apr 7, 2026 negative
Hassabis: European capital markets still lack growth-stage funding depth and ambition
“And I think that certainly was missing 10 years ago when I was doing fundraising for deep mind and I think it's still kind of missing today. Just that kind of level of ambition and the amount the capital markets can support.”
Apr 7, 2026 bullish
Hassabis: Medical regulation will transform after a dozen AI drugs complete trials
“And so I think AI can help there too, but I think the real revolution will come when a few, maybe a dozen or so AI drugs get through the whole process. And then the government and the regulatory body see that, and they have enough data to sort of back test the…”
Apr 7, 2026 bullish
Hassabis: AI systems will become significantly more agentic and autonomous within 1-2 years
“Second issue is a technical one, making sure These systems as they get more powerful, not today's systems, but maybe in a year or two's time when they become more agentic, more autonomous as we get towards AGI can they be kept on the guardrails that we want?”
Apr 7, 2026 bullish
Apr 7, 2026 neutral
Hassabis: Open-source AI models will lag frontier proprietary models by six months
“I think increasingly you know, what you're gonna see is the open source models are probably one step back from the absolute frontier. You know, it usually takes about six months for the open source community to sort of re-implement and figure out what those id…”
Apr 7, 2026 bearish
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Apr 7, 2026 bullish
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Apr 7, 2026 bullish
Apr 7, 2026 bullish
Hassabis: AGI will usher in a golden age of scientific discovery
“Well, I think on the positive side and the things obviously I've, I spent my whole career and life building towards AGI is, I think it will be the ultimate tool for science and medicine. So in terms of advancing scientific discovery finding cures to diseases, …”
Apr 7, 2026
Hassabis: Compute is AI's primary bottleneck for both scaling and experimentation
“I think compute is the big one, not just for the obvious reason of scaling up your ideas and your systems as you know, the scaling laws as they're called, you know, keeping on building bigger and bigger architectures with more and more parameters. And as you d…”
Apr 7, 2026 neutral
Apr 7, 2026 negative
Hassabis: AI developers must not build systems capable of deception
“And it's not ideal, but I think we're gonna have to try and do the best we can to at least come up with a sort of set of minimum, maybe minimum standards, some benchmarks that test for undesirable properties, for example, deception. You don't, you know, nobody…”
Apr 7, 2026 negative
Hassabis: Non-human-readable AI output tokens introduce dangerous security vulnerabilities
“It wouldn't be desirable to have AI systems output tokens that are not human readable. So, you know, in some kind of machine language that We couldn't understand. I think that would, you know introduce a new vulnerability.”
Apr 7, 2026
Hassabis: True AGI must match all cognitive capabilities of the human mind
“We've always defined, we've been very consistent how we define AGI as basically a system that Exhibits all the cognitive capabilities the human mind has. And that's important because the brain is the only existence proof we have that we know of in, maybe in th…”