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Last discussed Sep 19, 2026

An AI research company founded by Demis Hassabis that was acquired by Google and focuses on artificial general intelligence.

How Google DeepMind compares

3 creators weighed in
OpenAI Direct rival
AI research company

Both are top AI research destinations. Cal says DeepMind responded to an OpenAI announcement with its own modular system paper.

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Alexander Wissner-Gross

"Elon in particular was so concerned that Google DeepMind would result in this singleton future and he wanted to make sure that there was competition in the space."

Mentioned as the competitive threat that motivated Elon Musk to help create OpenAI

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Olivier Pomel

"Now there's DeepMind and OpenAI — more sexier places to do research."

Mentioned alongside OpenAI as modern alternatives to IBM Research for doing research.

Cal Newport

"Right after this OpenAI announcement, Google DeepMind put out their own paper announcing the Alpha Pro Nexus, which is a modular architecture system."

Compared to OpenAI's approach

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Nate Soares
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"I was at Google in 2012 when they bought Google DeepMind, which was able to play a lot of Atari games with one single program."

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John Coogan
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"The pacing the frontier statement, an open letter, was signed by employees and leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Meta and a bunch of other places."

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"Dennis Hassabis announced that he's stepping down as CEO of Google DeepMind. He's also stepping up into the role of Google DeepMind chairman, and h..."

"What just happened at Google DeepMind? Crazy crazy morning. Shakeup, a reorg, stepping down, stepping up, stepping left, stepping right."

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Pete Florence
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Used for: Conducting research on large-scale multimodal learning for robotics Praised: 20% culture encouraging side projects, massive-scale engineering culture buil... vs: Left DeepMind to build Generalist in order to move significantly faster with ...

"I did my PhD at MIT and then I was at Google DeepMind for four and a half years. A lot of my research was focused in what I would broadly say is how do we bring large-scale multimodal learning into robotics."

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"Elon in particular was so concerned that Google DeepMind would result in this singleton future and he wanted to make sure that there was competition in the space."

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Amanda McMaster
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Used for: Cloud-based semantic reasoning layer for Boston Dynamics robots

"The reasoning layer that gives you the semantic understanding of its environment can be in the cloud. That's things that we might partner with Google DeepMind or we may partner with other AI partners or who will build some of this ourselves."

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Olivier Pomel
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vs: Mentioned alongside OpenAI as modern alternatives to IBM Research for doing r...

"Now there's DeepMind and OpenAI — more sexier places to do research."

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Sebastian Mallaby
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"This was Shane Legg, Demis's co-founder, who gave a talk in 2009 about how superintelligence would arrive in 2030."

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Robert George
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Praised: Uses formal verification in their approach

"last week Deepmind released something also solving bunch of new not only ODOS problems but problems in like other different fields"

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TBPN
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"Deep Mind, Microsoft, Interconnect AI, Harvard"

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"they bought DeepMind, which was completely seen as like this wildcard side project. How does that fit in? You know, it's a bunch of researchers, an..."

"I'm so excited for the DeepMind numbers to potentially break out at some point because Google has to break out YouTube's revenue numbers."

Y Combinator
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"You have Google DeepMind right on the corner. You have Tesla, you have xAI, you have Thinking Machines."

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Cal Newport
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vs: Compared to OpenAI's approach

"Right after this OpenAI announcement, Google DeepMind put out their own paper announcing the Alpha Pro Nexus, which is a modular architecture system."

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Paul Scherer
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"Demis Hassabis made this point when they were meeting with Google and Facebook about acquiring DeepMind. And he asked Zuck about AI and Zuck gave a great answer and then he asked Zuck about VR and he gave equally great answers and he's like, 'Oh, ..."

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"Google's startup technical guide for generative media gives you a complete blueprint for deploying Google DeepMind's models in production — images, video, audio, all of it."

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