Demis Hassabis

They began to work on their next generation language model, which would be called Gemini.

Google would put its research, computing power, and marketing muscle behind a single chatbot.

And there's a great quote from this researcher on DeepMind.

about how valuable this time was to the company.

My view is that we probably needed to be second for a while just to light a fire under our own ass.

There's nothing like public humiliation for galvanizing action.

And then you see Demis was just built for this time.

His entire life he was preparing for this.

He just loves competition.

Demis was in his element.

The greatest tournament of his career was just getting started.

Everything is competitive and competition brings this mad rush, Demis said.

I've always got this in the back of my mind.

And he's just describing this time in his life.

It's been a hard year.

It's partly because everyone knows now would have known for 20 years or more that AI is the most important thing ever.

Venture capitalists are funding anything that moves.

Mid-level engineers are getting offers to do startups, even though they're not suited to running a company.

You've got the biggest titans, the most ambitious, most ferocious, most aggressive people in the world crowding into the sector.

DeepMind embraced a strict unity.