Demis Hassabis

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3,420 appearances 27 recordings 18 series first heard Feb 2024 last heard 7 Jul

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Founders · #416 The Relentless Missionary Creating AGI: Demis Hassabis · 1 Apr 2026 podcast

I just thought, look, I'll go to Google, I'll get a shitload of computers, and then I'll solve intelligence.

And so then Elon Musk hears about some negotiations between Demis and Google.

And so then he winds up calling Demis because he wants to buy DeepMind.

So Google doesn't get it.

Says when Elon found that Google was about to buy DeepMind, he said Demis shouldn't lose control of his company.

We can't have a giant corporation control AGI.

This is not a good thing for humanity.

And so then Elon calls Demis and says, how about if Tesla acquires you?

Demis pointed out that Tesla was not generating enough cash to support DeepMind's research.

Okay, how about if SpaceX acquires you?

Demis points out that SpaceX didn't have the computer power that DeepMind was going to need.

And so for the people that follow tech, all these characters keep popping up in the story.

You have Elon.

You have Larry Page.

Mark Zuckerberg pops up for a little bit.

A few years from where we are in the story, Sam Altman pops up.

But in January 2014, Demis goes ahead with Google, and this is something he's never regretted.

Google bought DeepMind for $650 million.

Demis netted $136 million.

Not long after the Google acquisition, DeepMind was paying $260 million in staff costs annually, six times more than its total spending during its first three years of existence.

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