{"id":391066,"date":"2026-04-10T04:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391066\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T04:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:49:07","slug":"google-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis-google-combined-all-the-companys-resources-to-catch-up-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391066\/","title":{"rendered":"Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: Google combined all the company&#8217;s resources to catch up with\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/google-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis.jpg\" alt=\"Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: Google combined all the company's resources to catch up with\u2026\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> 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\u2014acting 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&#8217;s compute infrastructure and forced it to ship faster in what he called the most &#8220;ferocious&#8221; competitive environment veteran employees had ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>Google combined fragmented AI teams and compute into a single push<\/p>\n<p>The core of the shift, Hassabis explained, was consolidation. Before the merger, Google had multiple teams building overlapping models with separate resources. &#8220;We&#8217;ve basically helped put together all the talent from around the company, sort of pushing in one direction,&#8221; he said on the podcast. That meant one model effort instead of two or three, and\u2014critically\u2014access to compute at a scale DeepMind hadn&#8217;t previously enjoyed. Alphabet spent $91.4 billion on capex in 2025 and has guided for up to $185 billion in 2026, with supply constraints, not cash, described as the bottleneck.<\/p>\n<p>Hassabis claims 90% of modern AI&#8217;s foundations came from Google and DeepMind<\/p>\n<p>In one of the podcast&#8217;s more pointed moments, Hassabis said roughly 90% of the breakthroughs underpinning today&#8217;s AI industry came from Google Brain, Google Research, or DeepMind. The transformer architecture, reinforcement learning from human feedback, and AlphaFold\u2014which won Hassabis a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2024\u2014all trace back to those labs. Whether the 90% figure holds up to scrutiny is debatable, but the academic record does back a substantial share.<\/p>\n<p>The startup playbook is now a survival strategy, not a branding exercise<\/p>\n<p>Hassabis framed the cultural shift as existential, not aspirational. &#8220;Acting almost like a startup, really, to get back to the frontier,&#8221; he said. And there&#8217;s evidence it&#8217;s working\u2014Gemini crossed roughly 750 million monthly active users by the end of Q4 2025. But the competitive window isn&#8217;t widening. OpenAI&#8217;s aggressive push into enterprise and consumer products, Anthropic&#8217;s rapidly scaling revenue, and the sheer pace of model releases across the industry mean Google can&#8217;t coast on legacy contributions. For a lab that helped invent modern AI, the irony is sharp: the only way to stay ahead is to run like it&#8217;s 2010 again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says his AI lab clawed its way back to the frontier over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[173376,220,46006,218,219,173377,16073,8060,61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-391066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-2023-merger","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-ai-lab","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-competitive-ai-landscape","14":"tag-demis-hassabis","15":"tag-google-deepmind","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}