{"id":986646,"date":"2026-01-20T11:13:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986646"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:13:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:43:28","slug":"google-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis-may-have-just-dropped-bombshell-for-openai-ceo-sam-altman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/20\/google-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis-may-have-just-dropped-bombshell-for-openai-ceo-sam-altman\/","title":{"rendered":"Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis may have just dropped &#8216;bombshell&#8217; for OpenAI CEO Sam Altman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demis Hassabis just told the AI world that ChatGPT&#8217;s path to superintelligence might be a dead end. The Google DeepMind CEO, in an CNBC &#8220;The Tech Download&#8221; podcast, argues that large language models\u2014the technology behind OpenAI&#8217;s flagship products\u2014can&#8217;t achieve true scientific breakthroughs because they&#8217;re missing what he calls &#8220;a world model.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a direct shot at Sam Altman&#8217;s scaling strategy. While OpenAI has bet billions on making LLMs bigger and faster, Hassabis says that approach hits a fundamental wall. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demis Hassabis just told the AI world that ChatGPT&#8217;s path to superintelligence might be a dead end. The Google DeepMind CEO, in an CNBC &#8220;The Tech Download&#8221; podcast, argues that large language models\u2014the technology behind OpenAI&#8217;s flagship products\u2014can&#8217;t achieve true scientific breakthroughs because they&#8217;re missing what he calls &#8220;a world model.&#8221; It&#8217;s a direct shot at Sam Altman&#8217;s scaling strategy. While OpenAI has bet billions on making LLMs bigger and faster, Hassabis says that approach hits a fundamental wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}