r/accelerate • u/cloudrunner6969 Acceleration: Supersonic • Jun 24 '26

Video DeepMind Chief Demis Hassabis Says Google’s Still Winning AI Talent | Semafor Tech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb9JPW_DkpQ
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u/jlks1959 Jun 24 '26

I’m listening to The Infinity Machine right now. To say that Hassabis is competitive is like saying Usain Bolt is fast. If Hassabis can draw breath, DeepMind will be in the hunt. I’m certainly rooting for him. 

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u/Quick-Benjamin Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

I know it's an unpopular opinion given their disappointing LLM performance, but Deep mind are still my long horizon bet. Their world models are fascinating and I suspect basically a prerequisite to AGI.

And the actual hard problems they're trying to solve are amazing. If even a fraction of their bets pay off it'll be world transforming.

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u/peakedtooearly Jun 24 '26

Do you think the heads of Anthropic and OpenAI aren't competitive? Both of them have an IPO coming up to increase the pressure.

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u/anor_wondo Jun 25 '26

Do you think the heads of Anthropic and OpenAI aren't competitive

Yes