One reorg led Google DeepMind to become the lab it is today.<\/p>\n
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On an episode of the “20VC” podcast released on Tuesday, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis<\/a> shared how his AI lab has caught up with its rivals in the last two to three years.<\/p>\n Hassabis said Google combined all the company’s resources, including compute, one of the biggest bottlenecks for AI<\/a> research. <\/p>\n “We’ve basically helped put together all the talent from around the company, sort of pushing in one direction,” he said.<\/p>\n This helped Google build the biggest models rather than having two or three versions at the same company.<\/p>\n “A lot of it was assembling together all the ingredients we already had and then kind of pushing with relentless sort of focus and pace,” he said. “Acting almost like a startup, really, to get back to the frontier and be ahead in many areas.”<\/p>\n Hassabis cofounded DeepMind<\/a> in 2010, which Google acquired in 2014. It merged with Google Brain<\/a> in 2023 to form Google DeepMind, the lab behind tools such as Gemini and Nano Banana.<\/p>\n “I would say about 90% of the breakthroughs that underpin the modern AI industry were done by either Google Brain, Google Research, or DeepMind,” Hassabis said.<\/p>\n The unit competes with frontier labs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft AI.<\/p>\n Tech leaders have long touted their companies’ ability to work like a startup and embrace a lean, move-fast culture.<\/p>\n In a letter to shareholders last year, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said that he wants the tech giant to operate like the “world’s biggest startup.”<\/p>\n “Speed disproportionately matters for every business, in every industry, at all times,” Jassy wrote. “It’s a false binary to argue that you can move fast or deliver high standards.”<\/p>\n Apple cofounder Steve Jobs also famously said the company was organized like a startup, with different teams all working on the same thing.<\/p>\n “We’re the biggest startup on the planet,” he said at a 2010 conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One reorg led Google DeepMind to become the lab it is today. Loading audio narration… On an episode…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[53,1329,532,5044,7718,11266,11264,132,8552,7543,11263,7828,157,11265,2315,752],"class_list":{"0":"post-14989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-google","8":"tag-anthropic","9":"tag-business-insider","10":"tag-company","11":"tag-deepmind","12":"tag-demis-hassabis","13":"tag-focus","14":"tag-frontier","15":"tag-google","16":"tag-google-brain","17":"tag-google-deepmind","18":"tag-lab","19":"tag-microsoft-ai","20":"tag-openai","21":"tag-shareholder-last-year","22":"tag-startup","23":"tag-tool"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}