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Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 44:20 Alex Kantrowitz Demis Hassabis stepped down as the CEO of Google DeepMind. 3 times in the scene
Big Tech’s Insane Hidden AI Spending, Ranking Anthropic vs. OpenAI, AI For Travel Debate
- ▶ 25:37 Alex Kantrowitz Um, and Demis by the way, which we've, we have covered on the show, but you and I haven't had a chance to speak about it yet, but,
Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick
- ▶ 0:11 Alex Kantrowitz And so of course, while I was flying from, uh, New York to Indonesia on the plane, I learned, or actually when we landed, I learned that Demis Sabas had stepped down as CEO of Google DeepMind, which is some of the most seismic news of the… 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:37 M.G. Siegler That DeepMind basically and Demis Hassabis took over sort of the group 6 times in the scene
Did Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI
- ▶ 17:00 Alex Kantrowitz And they probably have Google, whether it's, you know, forward deployed engineers, or whatever you want to call them, or Demis himself, they sure have Google in there working with them to ensure that this is deployed successfully, because…
Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
- ▶ 20:41 M.G. Siegler And then just one other thing that while you were talking, I remembered from the IO part is that, you know, Demis Hassabis came out specifically to talk about their, their breakthrough and what they view as a breakthrough in their Omni… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:19 M.G. Siegler And then I do think that the Demis Hassabis team is probably behind the scenes working on all these crazy models and crazy health and life science ideas that they want to work on.
AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
- ▶ 4:41 Geoffrey Hinton So not that long ago, Demis Hassabis thought it might be 10 years. 4 times in the scene
More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit
- ▶ 1:01:07 Alex Kantrowitz Sebastian Malaby has this book about Demis Asabas, the head of Google DeepMind coming out, and there was this excerpt published in the Wall Street Journal, and it just made me, you made me think about it when you talked about how good 5 times in the scene
OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
- ▶ 9:13 Alex Kantrowitz I was speaking with Demis Asabas from Google DeepMind earlier this year, and interestingly, he said that the thing closest that feels closest to AGI for him was Nano Banana, the image generator that they have, and the reason is because for…
Can AI Become Conscious? — With Michael Pollan
- ▶ 14:34 Alex Kantrowitz I'll tell you something that Demis Asabas, uh, the founder, the, uh, sorry, the founder of DeepMind and the CEO of Google DeepMind, uh, spoke, spoke with me about earlier this year. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:59 Alex Kantrowitz Because, you know, so for him, I think it's not, when we spoke, we've spoken a couple of times about this. 4 times in the scene
OpenAI Closes in on $100 Billion, OpenClaw Acquired, AI’s Productivity Question — With Aaron Levie
- ▶ 27:47 Alex Kantrowitz There's that, there's, uh, Dario and Demis on the small couch, which is one of my favorites.
How Google DeepMind Operates & Experiments — With Lila Ibrahim and James Manyika
- ▶ 0:59 Alex Kantrowitz Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, who's recently on the show, has described DeepMind as sort of a modern day Bell Labs. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:41 James Manyika So Josh who runs labs, uh, and, you know, Demis and a few of us say, what if we put all these tools we now have together into something that's actually useful?
- ▶ 47:05 Alex Kantrowitz It's been a great four, five episodes, actually, if you include the one we did with Demis, and we'll see you next time on Big Technology Podcast.
Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
- ▶ 50:45 Steven Adler Um, and so at Davos a few weeks ago, I think both Demis and Dario said some variation of, yeah, like if we were the only two groups building this technology,
Who’s Winning The AI Race? + Software’s Future — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
- ▶ 53:56 Alex Kantrowitz You know, I think Demis Asab has said, uh, at the crack of the new year that the U.S. or the West is four years ahead, sorry, four months ahead of them.
AI's Research Frontier: Memory, World Models, & Planning — With Joelle Pineau
- ▶ 20:28 Alex Kantrowitz Now there is some talk, Demis Sabis was on recently talking about how Google's video models
- ▶ 45:37 Alex Kantrowitz Stemis Asavas's background from Google DeepMind.
The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
- ▶ 11:34 Stephen Morris You had Demis Sarvis of Google saying, 4 times in the scene
OpenAI’s $50 Billion Fundraise, AI Advertising Game Theory, Apple’s AI Wearable Pin
- ▶ 1:25 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, six of which are actually going to end up on the big technology feed, three of which are, yeah, three of which, including this one are already there, including the Cristiano Amand, Qualcomm CEO episode, the Demis Asabas episode, which… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:28 Alex Kantrowitz Um, and, uh, I brought this up to Dennis this week at Davos. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:25 Alex Kantrowitz And, uh, this is sort of, uh, what, this was what Demis told me about glasses. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:04 Alex Kantrowitz And again, if you've missed the Demis conversation, it's only a half hour.
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon: Future Of AI Devices, AI Fashion, Blending Reality and Computing
- ▶ 41:53 Alex Kantrowitz Um, Demisa Sabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, recently said that China is only a couple months behind the state of the art, uh, Western models.
Is Google's Gemini Winning?, Thinking Machines Drama, Claude Cowork’s Potential
- ▶ 15:50 Alex Kantrowitz So Demis Hassabis is going to be back on the podcast next week.
- ▶ 25:48 Alex Kantrowitz I'm definitely going to talk with Demis about this next week because
- ▶ 50:37 Ranjan Roy How many times can you say harness with Demis next week? 3 times in the scene
AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball
- ▶ 21:26 M.G. Siegler And as you know, uh, Panos Panay and Mustafa Suleiman at Microsoft, and then Demis Hassabis at, uh, at Google and DeepMind. 6 times in the scene
OpenAI’s Potential, Google’s Speedy Model, Copilot Hits Turbulence
- ▶ 2:41 Alex Kantrowitz We've had, uh, we've had, uh, Demis Hassabis twice this year from Google DeepMind, Dario from Anthropic.
Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
- ▶ 57:47 Alex Kantrowitz And more on the way this past year, we've had Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on twice, including one with Google founder Sergey Brin.
Tim Cook’s Final Year?, Big Tech Horse Race, Anthropic’s Profitability Push
- ▶ 45:43 M.G. Siegler And even Demis Hespis has been talking about world models.
- ▶ 49:44 M.G. Siegler Um, and so again, I think like the fact that Demis has been out there talking a lot about this, like, you know, that he's thinking, even if it's not world models, there's some other what's next coming up that, that I think that they're…
Google Research Head Yossi Matias: AI For Cancer Research, Quantum's Progress, Researchers' Future
- ▶ 24:15 Yossi Matias I mean, think about AlphaFold, which, you know, uh, my colleagues, uh, were recognized with Nobel Prize, uh, Demis and John.
AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO?
- ▶ 14:58 Alex Kantrowitz I think that you do hear from folks like Demis saying that we need a couple of breakthroughs beyond LLMs to get to AGI.
Anthropic’s Potential, AI Video Gets Crazy, Market Bubble Approaching?
- ▶ 10:13 Alex Kantrowitz Demis Asabas from DeepMind said, yes, scaling is really helpful, but we're seeing some diminishing returns, or the words that he uses, it's slowing.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI's Potential, OpenAI Rivalry, GenAI Business, Doomerism
- ▶ 15:26 Alex Kantrowitz Do you think your obsession with scale might blind you to some of the new techniques like Demis Asaba says, you know, to get to AGI, or you might call it super powerful AGI, whatever human level intelligence is what we're all talking about.
Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
- ▶ 15:11 Stephen Morris They've created their own team internally led by Mustafa Suleiman, the co-founder of, um, DeepMind along with, with, with Demis Hassabis at, uh, who's still at Google. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie
- ▶ 7:22 Aaron Levie And Google, again, you know, it's funny, actually just, you know, timed well with, with your Sergey and Demis interview, I mean, with Sergey back at, like, there's, there's these little small nuances that, that, you know, you probably… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:46 Aaron Levie Yeah, if you have, if you put Jan, Jan Lacoon, Ilya, and, uh, Demis would be in that category if we need new techniques. 2 times in the scene
Apple’s Anthropic Flirtation, Can Meta Build Superintelligence?, AI Browser Wars — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 35:36 M.G. Siegler Demis Hassabis and others before how close we are actually to AGI and or super intelligence.
$100 Million AI Engineers, Vending Machine Claude, Legend Of Soham
- ▶ 13:29 Alex Kantrowitz Demis Sabis also said there's going to be another couple of breakthroughs that the AI industry is going to need in order to keep advancing toward AGI or whatever you want to call it, more powerful artificial intelligence.
Dwarkesh Patel: AI Continuous Improvement, Intelligence Explosion, Memory, Frontier Lab Competition
- ▶ 36:46 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, when I was at Google IO with Sergey and Demis, um, one of the most surprising things I heard was Sergey just kind of said, listen, the improvement is going to be algorithmic.
OpenAI's Jony Ive Moment, Anthropic's Big New Model, Google In AI Mode
- ▶ 1:02 Alex Kantrowitz So I had a fireside scheduled with Demis Hassabis, which we teased on the show last week, and I showed up to the stage, I got mic'd up, I had my questions ready, and, um, Google team tells me, look, there's been a bit of a switch, and I… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:34 Alex Kantrowitz Silicon Valley is rushing toward, uh, the next version of AI already, which is something that's ambient with you, understand your context, understands everything you say, and just helps you out, um, to be truly assistive, to be truly…
- ▶ 45:32 Alex Kantrowitz So of course, if you listen to the conversation with Demis, he talked about how, like, there's a video of a pan frying onions, and you can hear the sizzle.
Google DeepMind CTO: Advancing AI Frontier, New Reasoning Methods, Video Generation’s Potential
- ▶ 0:39 Alex Kantrowitz We're going to speak with Korai today, and then tomorrow you'll hear from DeepMind CEO, Demis Hassabis.
- ▶ 31:43 Alex Kantrowitz We'll have Demis Asabis on the CEO of Google DeepMind tomorrow.
Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco
- ▶ 29:23 Alex Kantrowitz First of all, I want to say that I'm going to be at Google's IO Developer Conference, uh, in Mountain View on Tuesday interviewing Demis Asabas.
- ▶ 54:11 Alex Kantrowitz Demis Hassabis is going to be on the show live from Google I.O.
Are We at the End of Ai Progress? — With Gary Marcus
- ▶ 36:50 Gary Marcus I want us to take a neurosymbolic approach where we have some classical elements of classical AI, like explicit knowledge, formal reasoning, and so forth that people like Hinton have kind of thumbed their nose at, but the say Demis…
Is OpenAI's o3 Model AGI? Is AI The New Social Media? Zuck's Revealing Testimony
- ▶ 24:43 Alex Kantrowitz And I think, now I think Demis and Google will show some restraint about using the term AGI, but I think that it would be really rough for OpenAI if another big lab beat them to the punch and said that they had open, they had AGI before…
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on AI Competition, Agents, And Tariffs
- ▶ 11:23 Thomas Kurian We, we work extraordinarily closely with Demis and his team. 3 times in the scene
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman: Building AI Personality
- ▶ 44:17 Alex Kantrowitz Demis is saying three to five years.
AI's Rising Risks: Hacking, Virology, Loss of Control — With Dan Hendrycks
- ▶ 1:03:36 Alex Kantrowitz You really can't trust anything it's telling you, and we had Demis Asabas on the show a little while ago, and he's basically like, listen, if you see deceptive behavior from AI, if you see alignment faking, you really can't trust anything…
Roblox CEO: We Want AI To Generate Full Games
- ▶ 16:24 Alex Kantrowitz I was speaking with Demis Asabas who had his, uh, AI game player go and beat Go. 3 times in the scene
NVIDIA VP Rev Lebaredian Talks Plan To Build AI That Understands The Real World
- ▶ 34:40 Alex Kantrowitz Rev, I want to ask you, uh, one more follow-up question about, not the flaws, but the video generator's ability to get things right, and then we're going to move on from this topic, but it is just surprising and interesting for me to hear…
How DeepSeek Changes AI Research & Silicon Valley w/ M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 1:00 Alex Kantrowitz I was just out in London, uh, to interview Demis from DeepMind. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:28 M.G. Siegler And, um, even Demis, you know, when you, when you talk to him, he, he noted that, um, he doesn't necessarily believe in, in, you know, a wall being hit, but he did acknowledge that things are slowing and it'll just take longer, um, to get…
- ▶ 28:02 Alex Kantrowitz Many of which Demis and I spoke about last week, all of a sudden become feasible because the capital is there.
Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For?
- ▶ 33:28 Parmy Olson The main point I wanted to say in my book was that I was just so fascinated when ChatGPT came out that two people, Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis, had become like these rivals to create artificial general intelligence, and they both started… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:18 Alex Kantrowitz Very expensive to produce and run, but I think that's a, that's a quite well, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it, but I do want to hear a little bit more about, um, sort of your perspective on Sam and Demis and if there's stuff…
- ▶ 46:20 Alex Kantrowitz Um, maybe many, but somewhat fewer have a perception of Demis Hassabis, who's the head of DeepMind at Google. 8 times in the scene
Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
- ▶ 39:22 Peter Diamandis And just recently, something called AlphaFold III was just announced by, by Demis at
AI Scaling, Alignment, and the Path to Superintelligence — With Dwarkesh Patel
- ▶ 0:17 Alex Kantrowitz He's the host of the Dwarkesh Podcast, and he's had DeepMind CEO Demis Sabison recently, along with Anthropix CEO Dario Amode.
Anthropic's Co-Founder on AI Agents, General Intelligence, and Sentience — With Jack Clark
- ▶ 23:52 Alex Kantrowitz I was speaking with Demis Hassabis, who hopefully, the DeepMind, Google DeepMind CEO, who will hopefully get on the show later this year, and when I was profiling him for big technology, it was interesting because 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:51 Alex Kantrowitz So I was speaking with Demis, um, just, you know, not on the broadcast, like just on the phone talking for the story that we're working on. 2 times in the scene
Google’s Weird Year + Neeva Goes to Snowflake — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
- ▶ 1:50 Sridhar Ramaswamy You know, things like Demis being now the overall head of AI and stuff like that.