DeepMind

9 statements across 8 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Jan 11, 2024 by Nathan Lambert · said 8 times in 4 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Jan 11, 2024 negative
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Lambert: Frontier AI labs do not recruit economics or social choice academics
“The RLHF techniques that people use were built in, like, labs like OpenAI and DeepMind, where there are some of these people, they have, they, these places do a pretty good job of trying to get these people in the door when you compare them to, like, startups,…”
Nathan Lambert Jan 11, 2024 ▶ 14:06 The Origin and Future of RLHF: the secret ingredient for ChatGPT - with Nathan Lambert
Oct 25, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Shafqat: NotebookLM Audio Combines DeepMind Voice Tech With Gemini 1.5
“Like we work with the DeepMind audio folks pretty closely. So they're always cooking up new techniques to like get better, more human-like audio. And then Gemini, 1.5 is really, really good at absorbing long context. So we sort of like generally put those thin…”
Usama Shafqat Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 14:28 How NotebookLM Was Made
Nov 11, 2024 neutral
Opinion
Polu: DeepMind IMO breakthrough relied on scaling RL and autoformalization
“I think the DeepMind team just did a good job of scaling. I think there's nothing too magical in their approach, even if it hasn't been published as a Dan Silver talk from seven days ago, where it goes a little bit into more details. It feels like there's noth…”
Stanislas Polu Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 9:00 Agents @ Work: Dust.tt — with Stanislas Polu
Jul 24, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Zhang confirms OpenAI's unverified IMO proofs are mathematically correct
“I read the proof that it's still correct, but it's just, like, less official, and that's why people kind of, like, kind of OpenAI received a few backlash over the weekend, and on Monday, DeepMind officially confirmed they have the gold medal and also fully ver…”
Dr. Jasper Zhang Jul 24, 2025 ▶ 3:51 ⚡️Math Olympiad gold medalist explains OpenAI and Google DeepMind IMO Gold Performances
Aug 29, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Morcos: Frontier AI lab data teams are systematically under-resourced
“I think you, what you see in all the frontier labs is that they have data teams. And if you talk to the folks that work on those data teams, what you'll kind of systematically hear is that typically they're under resourced relative to the gains that they're de…”
Ari Morcos Aug 29, 2025 ▶ 33:20 Better Data is All You Need — Ari Morcos, Datology
Jan 28, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
White: ML trained on experimental data beat first-principles simulations by a large margin
“Two very well-resourced groups. They both tried different ideas, and the machine learning on experimental data beat out first principles simulation by You know, a very large margin.”
Andrew White Jan 28, 2026 ▶ 45:21 🔬 From Red Teaming GPT-4 to Automating Drug Discovery: The Future of AI in Science — Andrew White
Jan 28, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
White: DE Shaw Research Had Similar or Greater Funding Than DeepMind
“They had, you know, similar funding to DeepMind, probably more actually.”
Andrew White Jan 28, 2026 ▶ 0:09 🔬 From Red Teaming GPT-4 to Automating Drug Discovery: The Future of AI in Science — Andrew White
Feb 12, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Dean: A one-page internal memo sparked the Gemini unification effort
“I actually wrote a one-page memo saying we were being stupid by fragmenting our resources. So in particular at the time we had you know efforts within Google research on and in the brain team in particular on large language models. We also had efforts on multi…”
Jeff Dean Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 1:07:48 The AI Frontier: from Gemini 3 Deep Think distilling to Flash — Jeff Dean
Jun 18, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Google DeepMind's six-month internal embargo shelves commercially valuable research papers
“I mean, what's worse is the paper is actually not even being Published anymore because there's a six month embargo inside of DeepMind, right? Like we've heard about this where a paper comes out and then I think there's a six month embargo window where if anybo…”
Anjney Midha Jun 18, 2026 ▶ 15:16 Why AI Labs With Unlimited GPUs Still Fail — Anjney Midha, AMP
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