Tag: deepmind
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Demis Hassabis Steps Down as Google DeepMind’s CEO
Demis Hassabis just gave up the CEO title at Google DeepMind, the lab he built from a London startup into the engine behind Gemini and AlphaFold. He is not leaving. He is moving up to chairman of DeepMind and taking on a new job as chief scientist for all of Alphabet, while Koray Kavukcuoglu, DeepMind’s…
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Google’s Gemini 3.5 Pro Just Hit a Wall
Gemini 3.5 Pro missed its June launch and now targets July 17, but Google is not confirming that either. The target slips. Enterprise testers flagged serious gaps: token efficiency is not where it needs to be, coding performance fell short, and long-form reasoning does not match what Google promised at I/O in May. So Google…
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Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog Just Got Smarter Than We Expected
Boston Dynamics equipped Spot-the quadruped robot-with Google DeepMind’s advanced reasoning model. Spot can now look at a factory floor and think for itself. This is different than before. Old Spot was a camera on legs. You told it where to go, what to look for. New Spot watches a valve, reads a gauge, sees dangerous…
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Google Just Lost the Transformer Architect
In three days last week, Google’s AI division suffered the kind of brain drain that stock markets price in immediately. Noam Shazeer, who co-authored the Transformer paper that sparked the entire LLM revolution, announced he is joining OpenAI. Then John Jumper, the 2024 Nobel laureate behind AlphaFold, said he was leaving DeepMind for Anthropic. Then…
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Google’s AI is now discovering better algorithms
Google DeepMind released an impact update for AlphaEvolve, its AI system for designing and optimizing algorithms. It is in production now, and the results are real. In genomics, AlphaEvolve improved DeepConsensus, a model for correcting DNA sequencing errors. Result: 30 percent reduction in variant detection errors. That is not incremental. That is the kind of…