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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.