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Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 7:05 David Rosenthal Jen Thrun, Noam Shazir, all the DeepMind folks, Demis Hassabis, Shane Legge, Mustafa Suleiman.
- ▶ 7:11 David Rosenthal Mustafa now, in addition to in the past, having been a founder of DeepMind, runs AI at Microsoft.
- ▶ 54:28 David Rosenthal DeepMind.
- ▶ 54:30 Ben Gilbert DeepMind, baby.
- ▶ 54:35 Ben Gilbert Now, of course, right after the bidding starts, DeepMind has to drop out.
- ▶ 54:50 Ben Gilbert Even though he's just doing this at the time startup called DeepMind.
- ▶ 54:56 David Rosenthal Wait, how is DeepMind in the auction, but Facebook is not?
- ▶ 55:31 Ben Gilbert Told you DeepMind drops out.
- ▶ 57:22 David Rosenthal That's what we talked about a minute ago, DeepMind.
- ▶ 57:25 David Rosenthal But before we tell the DeepMind story, now is a great time to thank a new partner of ours, Sentry.
- ▶ 59:55 Ben Gilbert All right, David, deep mind.
- ▶ 1:00:59 David Rosenthal And then you dig in a little further and you're like, this company doesn't seem to have any products.
- ▶ 1:01:04 David Rosenthal And it also doesn't even really say anything on its website about what DeepMind is.
- ▶ 1:01:36 David Rosenthal It turns out, though, not only was that description of what DeepMind was fairly accurate, this company and this purchase of it by Google was the butterfly flapping its wings equivalent moment that directly leads to OpenAI, ChatGPT,…
- ▶ 1:02:16 David Rosenthal DeepMind was founded in twenty-ten by a neuroscience PhD named Demis Hassabis.
- ▶ 1:05:26 David Rosenthal So the three of them decide to start a company, DeepMind.
- ▶ 1:06:19 David Rosenthal So, they decide on the tagline for the company is gonna be solve intelligence and use it to solve everything else.
- ▶ 1:09:15 David Rosenthal Shane has a quote in Parmy Olson's great book, Supremacy, that we used as a source for a lot of this DeepMind story.
- ▶ 1:11:10 David Rosenthal Founders Fund leads DeepMind's seed round of about two million dollars.
- ▶ 1:11:21 David Rosenthal Imagine leading DeepMind's seed round with less than two million dollar check.
- ▶ 1:12:35 Ben Gilbert Shortly after, Musk, too, became an investor in DeepMind.
- ▶ 1:13:06 Ben Gilbert Which of course is what DeepMind's ambition is.
- ▶ 1:13:18 David Rosenthal Also, in the intervening months to year after this meeting between Demis and Elon and Elon investing in DeepMind, Elon also starts to get really, really excited and convinced about the capabilities of AI in the near term, and specifically…
- ▶ 1:24:54 Ben Gilbert Famously, the data center cooling thing happens where DeepMind carved off some part of the team to go and be an emissary to Google and look for ways to use DeepMind.
- ▶ 1:25:53 Ben Gilbert It's the story of how DeepMind, post-acquisition from Google, trained a model to beat the world Go champion at Go.
- ▶ 1:26:35 Ben Gilbert And humans are now learning from DeepMind's strategy of playing the game and discovering new strategies.
- ▶ 1:27:39 David Rosenthal And of course, it's totally in with Demis' background and the DNA of the company of playing games.
- ▶ 1:27:44 David Rosenthal You know, Demis was chess champion, and then after Go, then they play StarCraft, right?
- ▶ 1:27:52 David Rosenthal Yeah, that was the next game that they tackle was StarCraft, you know, a real-time strategy game against an opponent.
- ▶ 1:40:26 Ben Gilbert Yeah, they bought DeepMind, but they had their talent rated, and I don't want you to get the wrong impression about where Google is sitting just because some people left to go to OpenAI.
- ▶ 2:04:23 David Rosenthal What is happening here, as best as I can tell, all you're doing is just trying to copy DeepMind.
- ▶ 2:40:27 David Rosenthal We're merging Brain and DeepMind into one entity called Google DeepMind.
- ▶ 2:40:35 Ben Gilbert This is in full violation of the original deal terms of bringing DeepMind in.
- ▶ 2:41:21 Ben Gilbert DeepMind was its own company.
- ▶ 2:41:25 Ben Gilbert They're working on their own models.
- ▶ 2:41:30 Ben Gilbert That was the big thing that DeepMind had been working on the whole time.
- ▶ 2:41:51 Ben Gilbert To DeepMind, and DeepMind is absorbing the Google Brain team.
- ▶ 2:41:54 Ben Gilbert I think that's what you should sort of read into it, because as you look at where the models went from here, they kind of came from DeepMind.
- ▶ 2:42:05 David Rosenthal So Mustafa Suleiman, the third co-founder of DeepMind,
- ▶ 2:42:27 David Rosenthal Remember, Reid is on the ethics board for DeepMind.
- ▶ 2:43:24 David Rosenthal Okay, so that first big decision that Sundar makes is unifying deep mind and brain.
- ▶ 2:55:44 David Rosenthal I mean, I think if that had happened, DeepMind would not have gone down in the same way, and probably OpenAI would not have gotten founded.
- ▶ 3:08:27 David Rosenthal One, we're merging Brain and DeepMind into one team for AI within Google, and two, we're gonna standardize on one model, the future Gemini, and DeepMind slash Brain team.
- ▶ 3:08:58 David Rosenthal So, once Sundar makes these decisions, Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinales from Brain go over and team up with the DeepMind team, and they start working on Gemini.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:40:05 David Rosenthal His collaborator on the AlexNet paper, Ilya Sutskiver, founding scientist of OpenAI, Dario Amadei, co-founder with his sister of Anthropic, Andre Karpathy, until recently chief AI scientist at Tesla, Chris Ola, Noam Shazir, Ian Goodfellow,…