Reid Hoffman

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This is Gavin Newsom · And, This Is Why Reid Hoffman Doesn’t Fear Artificial Intelligence · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

So what's the thing that got me back in AI was a three-hour meeting with Demis Hassabis, the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind.

And what I realized that he and his co-founder is the original kickoff of this.

DeepMind.

And it's not, I mean, again, it's not Microsoft.

It's not Anthropic OpenAI.

It's not SpaceX.

I mean, if you really want to start to understand and unlock an understanding, they're the ones.

Demis realized was we have scale compute, and with scale compute, we can create scale intelligence.

Now, his original idea has been less of the important thing, which is self-play.

So he had Pong and Go, and it plays against each other.

But the answer was we can apply a lot of compute

to evolve a competent machine with cognitive capabilities.

And I was like, you're right.

We now have scale compute.

And what's more, we have scale data and we have scale engagement, you know, through internet and mobile.

The revolution, a revolution, a massive revolution is here.

Now,

Did I know when I walked out of that meeting, you know, at, you know, King's Cross, that I was like, oh, actually, it won't be the self-play.

It'll actually be these things called transformers, these large language models that read the trillion and a half words on the Internet and use that as a learning basis to create something.

No, I didn't know that.

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