Nathaniel Whittemore

Today on the AI Daily Brief, AGI timelines are moving forward with implications for global AI policy.

Before that in the headlines, Google's AI lead says that there are no plans for ads in Gemini.

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With all that out of the way, though, let's look over to all of the conversations coming out of Davos.

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Today's main episode is all about comments from Davos, and actually that's where our headlines begin as well.

One of the big conversations for the past week or so has been OpenAI's plans to introduce ads into ChatGPT.

Now, I did an extensive show about this earlier in the week, but one of the major points of conversation, especially on places like Twitter slash X, was how ads impacted the competitive dynamics.

And specifically, would it be an advantage for Google, either A, in that perhaps because of their deep capitalization and balance sheet, they wouldn't have to do ads in Gemini, or B, because they have more experience with ads.

Well, speaking with Alex Heath of Sources, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says at the moment, Google doesn't have any plans to bring advertising to Gemini.

Commenting on ChatGPT ads, he said, it's interesting they've gone for that so early.

Maybe they feel they need to make more revenue.

Now, the comments do buck a string of recent reporting around Google's plans.

In December, for example, Adweek reported that Google had told advertising clients that ad placements in Gemini were targeted for a 2026 rollout.