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57 statements across 13 episodes · 41 bullish · 2 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Sep 14, 2023 by Colin Murdock · said 166 times in 52 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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2026 66 mentions in 16 episodes 4 per episode
- How Google DeepMind Operates & Experiments — With Lila Ibrahim and James Manyika
- Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick
- AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball
- Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: AI's Next Breakthroughs, AGI Timeline, Google's AI Glasses Bet
- Is Google's Gemini Winning?, Thinking Machines Drama, Claude Cowork’s Potential
- Can AI Become Conscious? — With Michael Pollan
- More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit
- Who’s Winning The AI Race? + Software’s Future — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 63 mentions in 29 episodes 2 per episode
- Google DeepMind CTO: Advancing AI Frontier, New Reasoning Methods, Video Generation’s Potential
- Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: The Path To AGI, Deceptive AIs, Building a Virtual Cell
- Erotic ChatGPT, Zuck’s Apple Assault, AI’s Sameness Problem
- Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on AI Competition, Agents, And Tariffs
- Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
- OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie
- DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis + Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin: AGI by 2030?
- Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco
- 21 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 15 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- Anthropic's Co-Founder on AI Agents, General Intelligence, and Sentience — With Jack Clark
- Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For?
- AI Scaling, Alignment, and the Path to Superintelligence — With Dwarkesh Patel
- Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
- Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: How AI Challenges Google
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
Everything said about Google DeepMind, oldest first
Sep 14, 2023 positive
Murdock: DeepMind's Flamingo generates search metadata across YouTube Shorts videos
“We discovered Flamingo was also able to look at that video for you, essentially watch all the videos for you and add data, metadata to those videos, such that when you're searching for those videos, it's much easier, much, much easier to find the videos that y…”
Sep 14, 2023 positive
Sep 14, 2023 bullish
Murdock: Merging LLMs and reinforcement learning will drive major AI breakthroughs
“I don't know exactly what the breakthrough will be, but I'm really excited about the union of these LLMs plus reinforcement learning. And I'm excited about that because I think there's a lot more to come from reinforcement learning. And I know at Google D mine…”
Sep 14, 2023 positive
Sep 14, 2023 positive
Sep 14, 2023 bullish
Sep 14, 2023 positive
Sep 14, 2023 bullish
DeepMind CBO: AGI will traverse branching scientific problems at unimaginable scale
“Once we solve one problem that typically opens up and shows this kind of branching set of new problems, the AGI system will be able to kind of trans translate across that problem space at a speed and scale that we can't even imagine today.”
Sep 14, 2023 neutral
Jan 23, 2025 bullish
Jan 23, 2025 bullish
Demis Hassabis predicts 2025 will be the year of AI agents
“Well, again, you know, I think the hype train can potentially is ahead of where the actual science and research is, but I do believe that this year will be the year of agents. The beginnings of it, I think you'll start seeing that you know lap, maybe second ha…”
Jan 23, 2025 neutral
Demis Hassabis sees 50 percent chance AGI requires new architectural breakthroughs
“Maybe we need one or two more transformer-like breakthroughs. And I, and I'm, I think I'm genuinely uncertain about that. So that's why I say 50%. So I mean, I wouldn't be surprised either way if we got there with existing techniques and things we already knew…”
Jan 23, 2025 bullish
Demis Hassabis confirms AI scaling returns are slowing but remain substantial
“My view is that we are getting substantial returns, but not, but it's slowing vis-a-vis, but it would have to, I mean, it's not just continuing to be exponential, but that doesn't mean the scaling is not working. It's absolutely working.”
Jan 23, 2025 bullish
Jan 23, 2025 positive
DeepMind math AI achieves Olympiad silver medals despite making basic errors
“You have systems some systems that we work on, like alpha proof, alpha geometry, that are getting, you know, silver medals in maths olympiads, which is fantastic, but on the other hand, Some of our systems, those same systems are still making some fairly basic…”
Jan 23, 2025 neutral
Jan 23, 2025 bullish
Jan 23, 2025 bullish
Demis Hassabis predicts AI will eventually discover room-temperature superconductors
“I think well I heard that we actually think there are some superconductor materials. I doubt they're room temperature ones though, but I think at some point, if it's possible with physics an AI system will one day find it.”
Jan 23, 2025 bullish
Jan 27, 2025 bearish
Demis Hassabis acknowledges AI progress is slowing and taking longer
“Even Demis, you know, when you talk to him, he noted that 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 to get more, you know, juice out of the squeeze as it were.”
May 21, 2025 bullish
May 21, 2025 positive
Hassabis: Test-time compute elevated AlphaZero from master level to superhuman
“We had versions of AlphaGo and AlphaZero with the thinking turned off, so it was just the model telling you its first idea. And, you know, it's not bad, it's maybe like master level, something like that, but then if you turn the thinking on, it's way beyond wo…”
May 21, 2025 positive
Hassabis: First AGI systems must be safe to spawn secure derivative architectures
“Assuming there is one, you know, there probably will be some organizations that get there first, and I think it's important to, that those first systems are built reliably and safely, and I think after that, if that's the case, you know, we can imagine using t…”
May 21, 2025 neutral
May 21, 2025 positive
Brin: Inference-time compute offsets 5,000x in training compute
“What they did with AlphaGo and AlphaZero, as you mentioned it showed, as I recall, something you would take 5000 times as much training to match what you were able to do with still a lot of training and the inference time compute that you were doing with Go.”
May 21, 2025
Hassabis: DeepMind trained AlphaFold using 300,000 to 400,000 synthetic predictions
“Where there wasn't actually enough real experimental data to build the final alpha fold, so we had to build an earlier version that then predicted about a million protein structures, and then we selected, it had a confidence level on that, we selected the top …”
May 21, 2025 neutral
Hassabis: AGI Must Understand Emotion but Emulating It May Be Undesirable
“I think it will need to understand emotion. I don't know if I think it will be a sort of almost a design decision if we wanted to mimic emotions. I think there's no, I don't see any reason why it couldn't in theory. But it might be different or we might, it mi…”
May 21, 2025 neutral
May 21, 2025 bullish
Hassabis: Tool use during test-time reasoning will be extremely powerful
“Especially if you think about, obviously, with an AI, during its thinking process, it can also use a bunch of tools, or even other AIs in, during that thinking process to improve what the final output is. So I think it's gonna be an incredibly powerful paradig…”
May 24, 2025
May 24, 2025 positive
May 24, 2025 neutral
May 24, 2025 positive
DeepMind CTO: A 10% gain in mathematical reasoning vastly expands AI applicability
“So when we say by improving 10%, if we can improve 10% by its understanding in math, right, understanding of really highly complex reasoning problems, I think that is a huge improvement because then that actually expands the general knowledge that, that would …”
May 24, 2025 positive
May 24, 2025 bullish
DeepMind CTO denies AI slowdown, says progress across the field remains stellar
“Rather than thinking about scaling only in one dimension, there's actually many different ways to think about it, and investing in those, and we can see the returns that I think across the field, really, not just not just here at Google, but across the field, …”
May 24, 2025 positive
DeepMind CTO: 'Vibe coding' allows non-programmers to easily build software applications
“I find it really exciting, right? Like, I mean, because, like, what it does is all of a sudden it enables a lot of people who are not necessarily, who do not necessarily have that coding background to build applications.”
May 24, 2025 positive
Gemini 2.5 Pro uses DeepThink to generate parallel hypotheses, not single chains
“It is a mode that we are enabling our 2.5 pro model so that, like, it can spend a lot more time during inference time to think, to build hypotheses, and the important thing is to build parallel hypotheses rather than a single chain of thought. It can build par…”
Oct 20, 2025 positive
Kantrowitz: DeepMind and Yale Cancer AI Model Validated in Living Cells
“The DeepMind researchers in collaboration with Yale released a twenty seven billion parameter foundational model for single cell analysis. I'm not even going to try to name it. It's called C to S scale in shorthand. It's built on Google's open source gamma fam…”
Nov 24, 2025 neutral
Kantrowitz: Hundreds of Google Search engineers were reassigned to Google DeepMind
“Just one example I got from the story, hundreds of engineers from search, which is the most important product. At Google, which is responsible for more than half the revenue. Hundreds of engineers went from search to Google DeepMind just to, you know, give you…”
Jan 19, 2026 bullish
Jan 23, 2026 bullish
Hassabis: Almost every future drug discovered will probably use AlphaFold
“I think in future Almost every single drug that's discovered from now on will probably have used AlphaFold at some point in that process, which is, you know, amazing for us, and, you know, really, that's what we do, all the work we do for.”
Jan 23, 2026 bullish
DeepMind Plans to Converge All Modalities Into One Unified Gemini Model
“Why this is why we worked with Gemini as being multimodal from the beginning, able to deal with, you know, video, image and eventually converge that all into one model, that's our plan, is that it'll be very useful for a universal assistant as well.”
Jan 23, 2026 bullish
Hassabis: AI Has Significant Headroom Using Existing Architectures and Data
“Actually it turns out you can wring more more juice out of the existing Architectures and data. So there's plenty of room, I think, and we're still seeing that in both the pre-training, the post-training, and the thinking paradigms, and also the way that they …”
Jan 23, 2026 positive
Hassabis: Reaching AGI Will Require One or Two More Fundamental Breakthroughs
“I'm definitely a subscriber to the idea that maybe we need one or two more big breakthroughs before we'll get to AGI, and I think they're along the lines of things like continual learning, better memory, longer context windows, or perhaps more efficient contex…”
Jan 23, 2026 positive
Jan 23, 2026 negative
Hassabis: AGI Must Mean Matching All Human Cognitive Capabilities
“I don't think AGI should be sort of turned into a marketing term or for commercial gain. I think there is always been a scientific definition of that. My definition of that is a system that that can exhibit all the cognitive capabilities humans can. And I mean…”
Jan 23, 2026 neutral
Feb 16, 2026
Adler: Hassabis and Amodei would slow AI pace if they were sole players
“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, We would find a way to get together and figure out how to slow down this frantic pace. Like it's going too…”
Feb 18, 2026 positive
Ibrahim: Interdisciplinary teams pairing ethicists and scientists unlock breakthrough AI research
“We want to build interdisciplinary teams. How do you create a culture where you can have a bioethicist next to a computer scientist and a neuroscientist? Because we think that's really where the magic happens and unlocks the work.”
Feb 18, 2026 bullish
Feb 18, 2026 positive
Ibrahim: Northern Ireland AI pilot saved teachers 10 hours weekly
“What they found was on average they were sending 10
Saving 10 hours per week per teacher, and their post-it notes were how they were using their time, which was, I'm getting time back with my family. I can now do lesson plans for different learners of differen…”
Feb 18, 2026 positive
Manyika: Google DeepMind develops specialized AI models for Waymo's autonomous driver
“And then you've got all these other, you know, special kind of ambitious projects working on things like Genie build world models. You've got work going on to build special things for Waymo and enhance the models that Waymo's that lead to Waymo, the Waymo driv…”
Feb 18, 2026 positive
Ibrahim: Hassabis greenlit infusing learning science into Gemini when model matured
“Over the past few years, we've been doing a lot of work around one science area, learning science. How do people learn and can we improve it? And then this year was really, Dennis was like, okay, Gemini is good enough. It's time to infuse Everything we've done…”
Feb 18, 2026 bullish
Ibrahim: DeepMind's GNoME expanded known stable crystals from 40,000 to 400,000+
“The alpha genome, the alpha gnome, the one that you've just mentioned, our material science, was really exciting because we basically went from 40,000 known stable crystals to 400,000 plus. That are now being tested with research, in research and in labs.”
Aug 10, 2026 neutral
Demis Hassabis Steps Down as Google DeepMind CEO in Leadership Shakeup
“Demis Asabas is stepping down as chief executive for Google DeepMind to become chairman and chief scientist. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in a post on X. Google DeepMind technology chief Koray Kavukcholu is taking on responsibility for all AI model developmen…”
Aug 10, 2026 positive
Kantrowitz: Demis Hassabis Refocusing on Fundamental Science Is Good for AI
“So I actually think it's good for AI that Demis will be focusing more on the scientific side, probably more on the world model side and not deeply in LLM. So you'll have basically the talent that open AI and anthropic and potentially what's left of the AI orga…”