{"id":380682,"date":"2025-12-30T15:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/380682\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T15:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:43:11","slug":"200-million-views-in-4-weeks-google-ai-ceo-demis-hassabis-celebrates-success-of-the-thinking-game-documentary-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/380682\/","title":{"rendered":"200 million views in 4 weeks: Google AI CEO Demis Hassabis celebrates success of The Thinking Game documentary on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1767109391_907_google-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis.jpg\" alt=\"200 million views in 4 weeks: Google AI CEO Demis Hassabis celebrates success of The Thinking Game documentary on YouTube\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> Demis Hassabis, CEO and co-founder of Google DeepMind has shared an online post celebrating the success of viral documentary \u201cThe Thinking Game\u201d on YouTube. Sharing an X (formerly Twitter) post, Hassabis said \u201c\u2018The Thinking Game\u2019 documentary has just passed 200M views on YouTube in just 4 weeks!\u201d. \u201cPerfect holiday viewing if you\u2019re interested in a behind-the-scenes look at how an AGI lab works, or what goes into making a <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/nobel-prize\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nobel Prize<\/a> winning project like AlphaFold happen,\u201d he added. In another post, Hassabis praised the director and producer of the documentary. \u201cAmazing work from the incredibly talented Director Greg Kohs, Producers Gary Kreig &amp; Jonathan Fildes, and a wonderful score from the maestro Dan Deacon,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Thinking Game\u2019: A documentary about Google DeepMind<\/p>\n<p>The documentary was released on November 25 on Google DeepMind YouTube channel for free. \u201cFilmed over five years by the award-winning team behind AlphaGo, the new film takes viewers into the heart of our AI lab, Google DeepMind, as the team strives to unravel the mysteries of artificial general intelligence (AGI),\u201d the company said in a blog post.The feature-length documentary follows Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis and his team during pivotal moments, including the moment the AlphaFold team found out they had solved a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology, a breakthrough that went on to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the blog post stated.Born on 27 July 1976 in London, United Kingdom, Hassabis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2024. In 2020, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper presented an AI model called AlphaFold2. With its help, they have been able to predict the structure of virtually all known proteins. AlphaFold2 has been widely used in many areas, including research into pharmaceuticals and environmental technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Demis Hassabis, CEO and co-founder of Google DeepMind has shared an online post celebrating the success of viral&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,139915,36070,254,255,64,63,37322,37320,22383,105,204953],"class_list":["post-380682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-alphafold","tag-artificial-general-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-demis-hassabis","tag-google-deepmind","tag-nobel-prize","tag-technology","tag-the-thinking-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}