Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: Google combined all the company’s resources to catch up with…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says his AI lab clawed its way back to the frontier over the past two to three years by doing something counterintuitive for a unit inside a $2 trillion company—acting like a startup. Speaking on the 20VC podcast with Harry Stebbings, Hassabis described a deliberate cultural and structural reset after the 2023 merger of DeepMind and Google Brain, one that gave the lab unified access to Google’s compute infrastructure and forced it to ship faster in what he called the most “ferocious” competitive environment veteran employees had ever seen.
Google combined fragmented AI teams and compute into a single push
