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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