DeepMind

11 statements across 8 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Dec 4, 2020 by David Friedberg · said 52 times in 16 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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brought up most by David Friedberg (22), Chamath Palihapitiya (18), Jason Calacanis (6), David Sacks (3), Sam Altman (1), Elon Musk (1), Brad Gerstner (1)

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Everything said about DeepMind, oldest first

Dec 4, 2020 positive
Prediction Held up
Friedberg predicts competitors will replicate DeepMind's AlphaFold within 24 months
“It's an inevitability that in the next couple of 24 months, someone else will replicate this.”
David Friedberg Dec 4, 2020 ▶ 41:00 E14: Salesforce acquires Slack, DeepMind’s AlphaFold breakthrough, Trust Fund Socialists & more
Dec 4, 2020 positive
Assertion Supported
Friedberg: AlphaFold accuracy matches experimental microscopic measurement precision
“And the accuracy of their predictive model now is within the range of error of the microscopes that are being used to actually scan and measure those proteins.”
David Friedberg Dec 4, 2020 ▶ 31:31 E14: Salesforce acquires Slack, DeepMind’s AlphaFold breakthrough, Trust Fund Socialists & more
Jul 23, 2021 positive
Assertion Supported
Friedberg: DeepMind published predicted structures for all human proteins
“This morning, DeepMind incredibly published a database with the predicted structure of every protein in the human body, and in 10 other species using this capability that they now have.”
David Friedberg Jul 23, 2021 ▶ 46:33 E41: Vaccine policy, Big Tech, DeepMind's latest breakthrough, wealth creation, opportunity & more
Jul 23, 2021 bullish
Prediction Partly held up
Friedberg: DeepMind's proteome database will exceed 100M proteins in months
“And they said that they're going to publish this proteome database and scale it for all other species of life that we have the sort of data set around. For which they expect will achieve over a hundred million unique proteins in this database over the coming m…”
David Friedberg Jul 23, 2021 ▶ 47:33 E41: Vaccine policy, Big Tech, DeepMind's latest breakthrough, wealth creation, opportunity & more
Jul 23, 2021 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Friedberg claims DeepMind generates tens of billions in annual Google revenue
“There's a lot of work that DeepMind does to optimize ad targeting and ad spending and all this stuff. And they make tens of billions of dollars of incremental revenue for Google per year based on those capabilities.”
David Friedberg Jul 23, 2021 ▶ 50:36 E41: Vaccine policy, Big Tech, DeepMind's latest breakthrough, wealth creation, opportunity & more
Dec 3, 2022 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Friedberg: Google uses DeepMind for ad optimization and YouTube video ranking
“My understanding is DeepMind has been applied to everything from ads, ad, ad optimization, but also the ranking on YouTube videos to get people more engagement on YouTube, et cetera.”
David Friedberg Dec 3, 2022 ▶ 1:19:14 E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
Feb 11, 2023 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Friedberg: Google AI improved data center energy efficiency by 40%
“They demonstrated last year that their AI improved data center energy efficiency by 40%.”
David Friedberg Feb 11, 2023 ▶ 35:14 E115: The AI Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft, Nordstream report, State of the Union
May 10, 2024 positive
Insight
Altman: Concentrating entire company on single AI models works best
“These systems are so complicated and concentrating bets are so important. Like one You know, at the time, before it was, like, obvious to do this, you have, like, DeepMind or whatever has all these different teams doing all these different things, and they're …”
Sam Altman May 10, 2024 ▶ 1:02:54 Sam Altman: Getting Fired (and Re-Hired) by OpenAI, Agents, AI Copyright issues
Oct 11, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Friedberg: DeepMind's protein modeling led to dozens of startups and billions invested
“And there have been literally dozens of companies that have been started since DeepMind was published, and probably several billion dollars of capital that's gone into companies that are creating new drugs, creating new industrial biotech applications, using t…”
David Friedberg Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 33:08 Hurricane fallout, AlphaFold, Google breakup, Trump surge, VC giveback, TikTok survey
Jul 23, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Huang: DeepSeek, OpenAI, and DeepMind started with around 150 people
“DeepSeek's a 150 people. Boonshot's a 150 people. And so, I mean, look at the original OpenAI was about a 150 people. DeepMind, you know, and they're all about that size.”
Jensen Huang Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 1:02:56 Winning the AI Race Part 3: Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, James Litinsky, Chase Lochmiller
Oct 31, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Musk: Larry Page discovered and acquired DeepMind after Musk showed it to him
“I showed him some stuff from Deep, from DeepMind, and I think that's how he found out about it and acquired them, actually.”
Elon Musk Oct 31, 2025 ▶ 54:03 Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing — Grokipedia
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