Demis Hassabis on Squawk Pod
Davos 2026: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis 1/24/26
A solid but heavily overlapping Davos-era update on Gemini, Google’s distribution advantages, and uneven AI-market froth. The older-chip deployment detail is the freshest material; listeners familiar with Hassabis’s recent competitive-positioning interviews can otherwise skip.
Yeah, well I think that's one of the advantage we have is we're full stack. So I think we're the only organization really that has a frontier lap and our own chips and TPUs and our cloud business. So we have a lot of sort of ways of utilizing any spare compute anywhere on our, on our, you know, on our, on our systems and data centers. And maybe as compute gets older, the older generations you start moving them towards serving or maybe like labeling data for you so you can always utilize, you know, even quite older sets of generations of chips for useful, useful work.
Demis Hassabis discusses Gemini's recent progress, its expansion across Google's products, and the advantages created by Google's research, infrastructure, hardware, and distribution. He also addresses AI-market valuations, future competition, chip efficiency, and how personalization may shape user loyalty.