Demis Hassabis on The Morning Brief
ET@Davos: Demis Hassabis on China, Apple and AGI
Worth hearing chiefly for the newsworthy Apple endorsement and his unusually direct advice that countries such as India should apply existing frontier models rather than build their own. The China, AlphaFold, and post-scarcity material substantially repeats other appearances.
>> Indeed. Indeed. What can you tell us about your deal with Apple? >> Yeah, it's a very exciting and and um you know very important deal for us. I think it's a great endorsement in some ways of the progress we've made with things like Gemini. you know, Apple ran a very rigorous evaluation period on uh as I understand it all the leading models and Gemini had the best um overall capabilities. So, we're very excited about that. We're very excited about you know helping Apple with their whole ecosystem and and Apple intelligence. So, I think it's uh you know a great deal for us.
Demis Hassabis discusses Google DeepMind’s shift from foundational research toward faster product delivery, along with openness, the Apple partnership, and AI strategy for countries such as India. He also assesses quantum computing, China’s narrowing capability gap, and the possibility that AGI could accelerate science and produce a post-scarcity future.