Google DeepMind
An AI research company founded by Demis Hassabis that was acquired by Google and focuses on artificial general intelligence.
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Both are top AI research destinations. Cal says DeepMind responded to an OpenAI announcement with its own modular system paper.
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Both are top AI research destinations. Cal says DeepMind responded to an OpenAI announcement with its own modular system paper.
"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
"Now there's DeepMind and OpenAI — more sexier places to do research."
Mentioned alongside OpenAI as modern alternatives to IBM Research for doing research.
"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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"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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"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."
"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."
More from Pete Florence →"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."
More from Alexander Wissner-Gross →"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."
More from Amanda McMaster →"Now there's DeepMind and OpenAI — more sexier places to do research."
More from Olivier Pomel →"This was Shane Legg, Demis's co-founder, who gave a talk in 2009 about how superintelligence would arrive in 2030."
More from Sebastian Mallaby →"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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"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."
"You have Google DeepMind right on the corner. You have Tesla, you have xAI, you have Thinking Machines."
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"Right after this OpenAI announcement, Google DeepMind put out their own paper announcing the Alpha Pro Nexus, which is a modular architecture system."
More from Cal Newport →"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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"Peter said from DeepMind at Google he thought and he gave a very thoughtful answer and it came out at like 99%."
More from Peter Diamandis →"Google DeepMind was the 10,000lb gorilla in the field. They just had lots of capital. They had the track record."
More from Greg Brockman →"People always talk about Demis and Hannah Sabas from DeepMind that was founded in the UK. Obviously we would have loved to have kept that here, but of course it also went with Google."
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"I'm thrilled to welcome Damis at Deep Mind."
More from 20VC with Harry Stebbings →"About 90% of the breakthroughs that underpin the modern AI industry were done either by Google Brain or Google research or DeepMind."
More from Demis Hassabis →"DeepMind worked a lot on video game solving video games via deep AI and they were the first to do Atari games right back in 2013"
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"They've got Demis and DeepMind internally. They've got the ability to spin things out like Waymo."
More from Tim Ferriss →"The acquisition paid for itself just by controlling the air conditioning more efficiently in the data centers. The entire acquisition price was paid off."
More from Eric Schmidt →"They don't have the ability to move to London and go to DeepMind, but there's still like a pretty decent talent pool there."
More from William Hockey →
"He started this company called DeepMind. DeepMind got bought by Google and DeepMind is basically Google's AI play."
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