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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. 2 times in the scene
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… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:37 M.G. Siegler That DeepMind basically and Demis Hassabis took over sort of the group 2 times in the scene
How China Caught U.S. AI — With Grace Shao
- ▶ 22:15 Grace Shao But beyond that, what's something I found the most enlightening, the framing was, um, provided by Google DeepMind's Yao Shunyu.
Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble
- ▶ 44:40 Ranjan Roy Actually, you, you can even feel that big company, uh, under, like, in the same article it talked about Google Counter, co-founder Sergey Brin and others were advocating for Google to move faster to seize opportunities in AI coding, but…
Did Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI
- ▶ 47:43 Alex Kantrowitz Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit
- ▶ 51:31 M.G. Siegler And, um, again, if you believe like Google's got deep mind,
- ▶ 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 2 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. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:43 Alex Kantrowitz He said, uh, this is something that he spoke with me about and on the Google DeepMind podcast, he said that information is the most fundamental unit of the universe, not energy, not matter information.
How Google DeepMind Operates & Experiments — With Lila Ibrahim and James Manyika
- ▶ 0:00 Alex Kantrowitz How does Google DeepMind operate and make bets and what's making Google more experimental? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:55 Alex Kantrowitz Let's just start with the way that Google DeepMind operates. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:14 Alex Kantrowitz Is that, is that something that's going on within DeepMind as well? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:30 James Manyika So the idea with Labs is let's take the most amazing research coming out of Google DeepMind and Google research and any other place, quite frankly, in the company, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:55 James Manyika Another example that actually came out of Google DeepMind and Google research is co-scientist, which those teams worked on, which is a tool for scientists to do actual scientific discovery. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:16 Alex Kantrowitz And we're back here on Big Technology Podcast with Lila Ibrahim, the COO of Google DeepMind, and James Monika, SVP of Research Labs, Technology, and Society at Google.
- ▶ 42:41 James Manyika Yeah, we, we actually have a very broad program around weather, uh, and that's working Google DeepMind and Google Research, trying to, because there's so many things you want to predict with weather. 2 times in the scene
Who’s Winning The AI Race? + Software’s Future — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
- ▶ 7:06 Sridhar Ramaswamy They kept DeepMind quite separate, and DeepMind was all, has always been at the cutting edge of AI and has become a real weapon for them in terms of getting to the front. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:00 Sridhar Ramaswamy And, uh, you know, I'm not that close to Google anymore, but folks speak about how one of the really cool things about DeepMind is having, uh, Sergey in the mini kitchen, just hanging out, talking to people.
AI's Research Frontier: Memory, World Models, & Planning — With Joelle Pineau
- ▶ 45:37 Alex Kantrowitz Stemis Asavas's background from Google DeepMind.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: AI's Next Breakthroughs, AGI Timeline, Google's AI Glasses Bet
- ▶ 0:00 Alex Kantrowitz Google DeepMind CEO Demis Asabas joins us to talk about the path from here to AGI, when Google's AI glasses are coming, and whether the pace of AI progress can keep up at this rate. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:15 Demis Hassabis At maximum, with maximum, uh, force, both, you know, scaling up, uh, the current paradigms and ideas, and, and, and when I say scaling up, that also involves innovation, by the way, um, pre-training especially, I think we're very strong…
- ▶ 9:42 Alex Kantrowitz You were asked, um, on the Google DeepMind podcast, which is a great listen,
- ▶ 23:17 Demis Hassabis But from my perspective, you know, running Google DeepMind is, um, my job is to make sure that whatever happens with an air bubble, if it, if it, if it bursts or if there isn't one and it continues, we win either way.
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
- ▶ 14:58 Ranjan Roy I still like the idea that it's Sundar's McKinsey days that taught him the key to organizational, like, uh, transformation and reorgs and the move to bring in deep mind and like, you know, like actually centralized, like the AI development… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:01 Alex Kantrowitz It's a great, great documentary, kind of a look into deep mind.
- ▶ 51:14 Alex Kantrowitz Then I'll be interviewing, uh, Brett Taylor, CEO of Sierra, Demis Asabas, CEO of Google DeepMind, 2 times in the scene
Who Wins if AI Models Commoditize? — With Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch
- ▶ 1:11 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, there's 500 people at the company and Arthur, you are leading it after spending some time in the, uh, Academy and two and a half years at DeepMind.
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. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:30 Alex Kantrowitz And, uh, and he said, uh, I, he was at, I think he was at Google DeepMind, and he was like, I didn't leave a big company to start a company to get acquired to go back to a big company.
2025 In Review, 2026 Predictions: Meta, NVIDIA, Tesla, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft
- ▶ 6:05 Reed Albergotti I think it's just so remarkable that Meta, you know, they were so early on AI, they tried to acquire DeepMind, you know, before Google did, um, and then sort of just lost focus on it.
- ▶ 20:02 Alex Kantrowitz Um, it's, it, Google, like, between Waymo, AI, Quantum, I mean, the fact that they acquired DeepMind, they're a smart company.
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.
AI Is Upending Law. Is That A Sign For The Rest Of Us? — With Melia Russell
- ▶ 45:50 Melia Russell The founders, um, Winston Weinberg is a, you know, recovering lawyer and, uh, Gabe Pereira was a Google deep mind researcher.
Google Pushes OpenAI, Bezos Returns, AI’s No. 1 Hit
- ▶ 19:39 Alex Kantrowitz What Sundar did, which is really interesting, is he took, uh, you know, Brain and DeepMind, Google Brain and DeepMind, which we know consolidated them, uh, that, that gave them access to the TPUs, um, instead of having to fight over them,… 2 times in the scene
Could LLMs Be The Route To Superintelligence? — With Mustafa Suleyman
- ▶ 19:52 Mustafa Suleyman I mean, I think the self-play, um, work that, uh, we did a DeepMind, you know, back sort of six or seven years ago now with AlphaZero, um, you know, that, that obviously paved the way to the first large scale, um, you know, sort of,
OpenAI and Microsoft’s Grand Bargain, Sam Altman’s Next Three Years, A New Humanoid Robot
- ▶ 25:36 Ranjan Roy We talked the other day about DeepMind and, like, the cell to structure model that's making massive advances in cancer research.
Google Research Head Yossi Matias: AI For Cancer Research, Quantum's Progress, Researchers' Future
- ▶ 1:15 Yossi Matias So this one, for example, on the cell to sentence is a collaboration with Yale researchers and, uh, researchers from Google Research and Google DeepMind looking into how to leverage foundation models in combination with the data that we…
Erotic ChatGPT, Zuck’s Apple Assault, AI’s Sameness Problem
- ▶ 29:26 Alex Kantrowitz Google DeepMind said Wednesday that its latest biological artificial intelligence system had generated and experimentally confirmed a new hypothesis 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:38 Ranjan Roy And, and again, in the deep mind cancer example, we are starting to harness it in ways that are incredible, but still like at the core, it's still not fully understood and known.
Can We Save The Web From AI? — With Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince
- ▶ 28:00 Alex Kantrowitz So, you know, DeepMind is working on weather forecasting right now. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic’s Potential, AI Video Gets Crazy, Market Bubble Approaching?
- ▶ 2:22 Alex Kantrowitz Like the one thing that I kept coming back to, uh, when writing the story about Dario and the company is just that you have this competition coming from all sides, competition, obviously from open AI, but also from meta, um, places like… 2 times in the scene
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.
- ▶ 42:08 Stephen Morris DeepMind, it, it entered its model.
- ▶ 58:51 Stephen Morris And just this week, I reported that they'd poached another 23 from DeepMind.
Grok's AI Lovebot, Aqui-Hire-Sition Backlash, OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent Debuts
- ▶ 1:48 Alex Kantrowitz Now we all know that companies like OpenAI and DeepMind within Google and Anthropic have been leading this AI race, but
OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie
- ▶ 0:00 Alex Kantrowitz OpenAI's Windsurf deal is off, and the executive team is going to DeepMind? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13 Alex Kantrowitz 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.
Apple’s Anthropic Flirtation, Can Meta Build Superintelligence?, AI Browser Wars — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 31:51 Alex Kantrowitz And you look at some of the names on this team, uh, and they really are, I think some of the stars at, uh, largely OpenAI, but also some other research houses as well, including Anthropic and DeepMind.
OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree
- ▶ 37:09 Ranjan Roy And, and I mean, in a way, even like the deep mind acquisitions of long ago in AI with the big tech giants, maybe aqua hirezition has been
Dwarkesh Patel: AI Continuous Improvement, Intelligence Explosion, Memory, Frontier Lab Competition
- ▶ 24:34 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, DeepMind, for instance, had a paper that came out a little while ago, where they have this thing inside the company called Alpha Evolve, that has been trying to make better algorithms and helped reduce, for instance, the training… 2 times in the scene
Sam Altman’s Gentle Singularity, Zuck’s AI Power Play, Burning Of The Waymos
- ▶ 49:20 Alex Kantrowitz Not to mention, Google is now offering employee buyouts in the search organization and other organizations, uh, while not offering them in places like DeepMind that does AI.
OpenAI's Jony Ive Moment, Anthropic's Big New Model, Google In AI Mode
- ▶ 32:16 Alex Kantrowitz And I have to say, I'm fairly convinced that this is the bet for Anthropic, where we just talked last week about Alpha Evolve, the open, the, um, the deep mine tool that helps come up with new algorithms and help reduce training time.
Google DeepMind CTO: Advancing AI Frontier, New Reasoning Methods, Video Generation’s Potential
- ▶ 0:04 Alex Kantrowitz We'll find out with Google DeepMind's Chief Technology Officer right after this. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, I'm curious, like what's happening within Google, uh, Google deep mind. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:45 Koray Kavukcuoglu So, like, as a research lab, Google, and, like, before, of course, like, there was DeepMind and Google Brain, two separate labs,
- ▶ 31:43 Alex Kantrowitz We'll have Demis Asabis on the CEO of Google DeepMind tomorrow.
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis + Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin: AGI by 2030?
- ▶ 0:19 Alex Kantrowitz Demis Asabas, the CEO of DeepMind, is here. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:34 Sergey Brin Yeah, look, I mean, um, as Demis said, I mean, DeepMind really pioneered a lot of this reinforcement learning work, and, uh, what they did with AlphaGo and AlphaZero, as you mentioned, um, it showed, as I recall, something you would take…
Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco
- ▶ 29:35 Alex Kantrowitz We'll have a, uh, we'll publish that interview on the feed Wednesday, along with an interview with, uh, DeepMind's
- ▶ 43:55 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, I'll speak with, uh, with DeepMind about it next week, but, um, it just seems to me to be a problem.
- ▶ 46:19 Alex Kantrowitz And, I mean, maybe that's an overstatement, but, um, there's a fascinating thing that came out this week, uh, from, from DeepMind.
Is Anthropic’s Claude AI Conscious, Shopping in ChatGPT, Systrom vs. Zuck
- ▶ 17:52 Alex Kantrowitz So he says basically Anthropic is going to work on this and other companies like Google, DeepMind and OpenAI have some interoperability efforts trying to figure out how these models work, but he encourages them to allocate more resource,…
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on AI Competition, Agents, And Tariffs
- ▶ 7:19 Alex Kantrowitz You talked about a lot of models coming out of DeepMind. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:57 Alex Kantrowitz And that is that Google does have deep mind in house. 3 times in the scene
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman: Building AI Personality
- ▶ 8:02 Alex Kantrowitz Um, and then of course you mentioned you're from, you, you started at DeepMind.
Why Can't AI Make Its Own Discoveries? — With Yann LeCun
- ▶ 31:23 Yann LeCun Uh, and there are people at DeepMind working on similar things, and there are, you know, people in various universities working on this.
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.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: The Path To AGI, Deceptive AIs, Building a Virtual Cell
- ▶ 0:00 Alex Kantrowitz Google DeepMind CEO and Nobel Laureate Demis Hassabis joins us to talk about the path toward artificial general intelligence, Google's AI roadmap, and how AI research is driving scientific discovery. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:00 Demis Hassabis And, and fortunately at, at Google DeepMind, we have, you know, a big enough group, we, we can invest in both those things.
- ▶ 25:46 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, are you seeing similar things and what, and the stuff that you're testing within DeepMind and what are we supposed to think about all this? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:49 Alex Kantrowitz Sort of an exercise that happens within deep mind.
Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For?
- ▶ 46:20 Alex Kantrowitz Um, maybe many, but somewhat fewer have a perception of Demis Hassabis, who's the head of DeepMind at Google. 4 times in the scene
Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
- ▶ 39:16 Peter Diamandis And of course, AlphaFold by Google's DeepMind solved protein folding.
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.
- ▶ 10:06 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, how should we think about the efforts of deep mind versus meta versus anthropic versus open AI? 2 times in the scene
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 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:32 Jack Clark We also work together through something called the, the FMF, the frontier model forum, where us, Microsoft open AI and Google deep mind are within it. 3 times in the scene
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: How AI Challenges Google
- ▶ 0:50 Alex Kantrowitz You've been at Google, you've been in DeepMind as an intern, and then also working at OpenAI.
Google's DeepMind Wants To Make Human-Level Artificial Intelligence, Says Its Chief Business Officer
- ▶ 0:01 Alex Kantrowitz A top executive at the heart of Google's deep mind efforts to advance artificial intelligence joins us right after this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:43 Colin Murdock So that is why, actually, at Google D-Minds, um, we have, and it's always been part of what we do, this, uh, kind of responsible approach, or pioneering response, as we call it.
- ▶ 18:43 Alex Kantrowitz I'm pretty sure people from DeepMind have talked about, I think I'm going to just cite this, that the algorithm should be better at planning and problem solving. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:27 Alex Kantrowitz So I'm curious, I want to ask you about the deep mind approach versus, uh, this new approach that's, or maybe not new, but definitely is gaining share in people's minds called a constitutional AI. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:43 Alex Kantrowitz He's the chief business officer at Google DeepMind. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:39 Colin Murdock And I know at Google D mine, we have great deal of expertise in that.
Is ChatGPT A Step Toward Human-Level AI? — With Yann LeCun, Meta Chief AI Scientist
- ▶ 4:57 Yann LeCun Not quite for DeepMind. 6 times in the scene