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Koray Kavukcuoglu

CTO, Google DeepMind · 1 appearance on the record.

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Insight
DeepMind CTO: AI algorithms and architecture matter just as much as scale
“When we are thinking about our architectures, Like the architectural elements, the algorithms that we put in there that come, that make up the model, right? They are as important as the scale.”
Koray Kavukcuoglu May 24, 2025 ▶ 4:27 Google DeepMind CTO: Advancing AI Frontier, New Reasoning Methods, Video Generation’s Potential
Opinion
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, …”
Koray Kavukcuoglu May 24, 2025 ▶ 7:56 Google DeepMind CTO: Advancing AI Frontier, New Reasoning Methods, Video Generation’s Potential
Opinion
Kavukcuoglu: No major AI lab relies solely on scaling LLMs for AGI
“But also, I don't think that there's any research lab that is trying to only do scaling up the LLM.”
Koray Kavukcuoglu May 24, 2025 ▶ 9:45 Google DeepMind CTO: Advancing AI Frontier, New Reasoning Methods, Video Generation’s Potential
Disclosure
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…”
Koray Kavukcuoglu May 24, 2025 ▶ 13:11 Google DeepMind CTO: Advancing AI Frontier, New Reasoning Methods, Video Generation’s Potential
Disclosure
DeepMind CTO: Gemini and Veo are our primary pathways to AGI
“So like with Gemini models, with VO models, all those kinds of generative AI models and exciting things that is happening there. That's our main line of AGI research that's going on.”
Koray Kavukcuoglu May 24, 2025 ▶ 2:12 Google DeepMind CTO: Advancing AI Frontier, New Reasoning Methods, Video Generation’s Potential
Insight
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 …”
Koray Kavukcuoglu May 24, 2025 ▶ 19:47 Google DeepMind CTO: Advancing AI Frontier, New Reasoning Methods, Video Generation’s Potential
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Kavukcuoglu: Veo 2 is DeepMind's first video model to truly understand physics
“With VO two, I think for the first time we could comfortably say that for many, many cases, right, the model has understood the dynamics of the world well.”
Koray Kavukcuoglu May 24, 2025 ▶ 23:43 Google DeepMind CTO: Advancing AI Frontier, New Reasoning Methods, Video Generation’s Potential
Opinion
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.”
Koray Kavukcuoglu May 24, 2025 ▶ 30:30 Google DeepMind CTO: Advancing AI Frontier, New Reasoning Methods, Video Generation’s Potential

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Assertion Supported
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…”
Alex Kantrowitz Aug 10, 2026 ▶ 1:08 Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick

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Appearances (1)

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Google DeepMind CTO: Advancing AI Frontier, New Reasoning Methods, Video Generation’s Pote May 24, 2025 21m
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