DeepMind

“The economic return after 10 years or so, or nine years that Google has gotten from DeepMind, you know, is not clear. It's worth their investment.”

“You can't, absolutely cannot do research in a startup. You just can't because you just don't have the funds, right?”

“It doesn't seem like there's a strong leader at the moment. I think in terms of revenue, probably open AI is leading by a lot.”

“Demis tried to break away from Google and also become something like a non-profit. He spent years trying to do that, and spent a lot of money and time trying to do that, and they both failed to create these structures of Responsible governance.”

“Demis did it first. He was actually the first kind of put his neck on the line as a among the scientific community to do something that was really a fringe theory back in the, in 2010 and started a company that actually wanted to build human level AI.”

“And Demis also has an incredible almost obsession with winning a Nobel prize. This is what I've heard from people who worked with him. That was kind of the goals that he put for the company.”

“Well, look, we, we've seen similar types of things where it's trying to resist sort of revealing its, some of its training.”

“The question is, you know, when is this going to go from interesting research papers demonstrating a new capability with a new architecture to, you know, architectures at scale that You know, are practical for a lot of applications and can find solutions to ne…”

“Our field is not compensated any differently. Our partner ecosystem is able to use all the models in the platform, and most importantly, we have very large Anthropic customers running on GCP.”

“In fact, we're staging models out to the developer ecosystem within a matter of a few hours after they're finally built.”

“OpenAI's deal to buy Windsurf is off, and Google will instead hire the Windsurf CEO, Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf's R&D employees from the company to join DeepMind. Google and Windsurf announced Friday.”

“I think Mustafa Suleiman now has six or 7000 people reporting to him. And just this week, I reported that they'd poached another 23 from DeepMind.”

“Meta, you know, they were so early on AI, they tried to acquire DeepMind, you know, before Google did and then sort of just lost focus on it.”

“Facebook offered more money, but I wanted somebody who really understood why AI would be bigger than all those things. And then he sold to Google.”