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Insight
Khosla: Blindly funding Google DeepMind spinouts with $2M seed checks is bad
“Anytime somebody leaves deep, deep mind, give them two million dollars, that's a bad strategy.”
Vinod Khosla Jun 14, 2024 ▶ 26:14 #51: Vinod Khosla on What to Build in AI · More or Less Podcast
Insight
Khosla: Automatically funding anyone leaving Google DeepMind is a bad strategy
“Anytime somebody leaves deep, deep mind, give them two million dollars, that's a bad strategy.”
Vinod Khosla Dec 27, 2024 ▶ 51:15 #79: The More or Less Holiday Special Pt. 1 (AI Highlights) · More or Less Podcast
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brit Morin claims DeepMind is creating and backing multi-billion dollar companies
“Multi-billion dollar companies being created and invested in by DeepMind.”
Brit Morin May 15, 2026 ▶ 8:22 Google's AI-First Laptop, Meta's Spy Games, AI Monks in Middle America · More or Less Podcast
Assertion Supported
Dave Morin: DeepMind's GNoME Discovered 2.2M Crystals and 380k Stable Materials
“DeepMind put out a blog post, I think it was about seven days ago, it was the 29th, and they said that their AI tool, which is called Gnome, found 2.2 million new crystals. Including 380,000 stable materials that have never been discovered before. And they mad…”
Dave Morin Dec 8, 2023 ▶ 16:59 #26: Google Gemini, Meet Crypto-Cyber-Crystals · More or Less Podcast
Opinion
Jessica Lessin: Merger of DeepMind and Google Brain Has Worked
“But, you know, they've got amazing technologists over there, the kind of union of the DeepMind group in Google brain, you know, seems all things considered to Kind of have worked.”
Jessica Lessin Dec 8, 2023 ▶ 15:48 #26: Google Gemini, Meet Crypto-Cyber-Crystals · More or Less Podcast
Assertion Supported
Dave Morin: Lawrence Berkeley Lab Created Autonomous Robotic Lab for GNoME Materials
“In partnership with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, we also published this other paper, which, if you click in and go look at it, the Lawrence Laboratory has created, they've taken a, you know, a six-axis gimbal arm, and they've created this autonom…”
Dave Morin Dec 8, 2023 ▶ 18:39 #26: Google Gemini, Meet Crypto-Cyber-Crystals · More or Less Podcast
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