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FT Exclusive: Google DeepMind chief Sir Demis Hassabis has warned that exuberance in parts of the AI industry looks increasingly 'bubble-like', while arguing that its scale and technology leave the Big Tech group well placed for any potential reckoning.

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Demis Hassabis explains Isomorphic Labs' 10x drug discovery engine, and why solving disease could also create a multi-hundred-billion-dollar business "If you ask me, the number one thing AI can do for humanity, it would be to solve hundreds of terrible diseases. I can't imagine a better use case for AI." "If you could revolutionize the drug discovery process, make it 10x faster and more efficient, and more likely to pass through the clinical trials because you can predict the properties better, that has to also be of enormous commercial value too." "I hope to do both with Isomorphic." "Build a multi-hundred-billion-dollar business. I think it has that potential, as well as being incredibly beneficial for society and humanity." The real health AI prize is not another chatbot. It is compressing the path from a predicted drug property to a clinical trial, then turning that speed into treatments for hundreds of diseases. Demis is making a rare dual bet: the most valuable AI company in biology may also deliver AI's most valuable public benefit. - Demis Hassabis (Demis Hassabis), CEO of Google DeepMind and founder of Isomorphic Labs, on Bloomberg TV

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Demis Hassabis reveals the 100,000-person synthetic country that took years to hand-code, and says AI may now generate it "We tried to simulate a whole country with 100,000 living, breathing people sort of going about their daily lives and all the politics of it" "And you were supposed to create a revolution" "So it was a pretty ambitious game that we had to write by hand" "And what's amazing now, and it took years" "But what's amazing now is that we might be close to this possibility of actually just sort of generating that" The leap is not better graphics. It is the cost curve of simulation: from years of hand-coding one world to asking a model to generate it. That turns synthetic societies from bespoke software projects into a reusable AI primitive. - Demis Hassabis (Demis Hassabis), CEO of Google DeepMind, at Semafor Tech

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Demis Hassabis believes classical AI is enough for drug discovery, like AlphaFold has shown. But quantum computers may shine in material science, where data is scarce. They could simulate complex materials like superconductors or solar panels. DeepMind is actively exploring this frontier for breakthroughs in energy and tech. Quantum simulations might generate the missing data needed for major inventions.

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Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel laureate, says the AGI definition the industry uses is too low a bar. His Einstein test: train a system on a 1901 knowledge cutoff and ask it to invent special relativity. "The human brain is the only existence proof we have that general intelligence is even possible." "That's a pretty high bar, and it means that it's probably higher bar than just being able to do some useful economic work." "The type of test I would have is like an Einstein test of, you know, let's train one of these systems with a 1901 knowledge cutoff. Can it invent special relativity like Einstein did in 1905?" "What you'd actually want is something a future version of AlphaGo to be able to invent Go, right? Invent a game as deep and as complex and elegant and as beautiful as Go, not just come up with a strategy within the game." "I don't think today's systems are yet capable of doing that, but I think they will be able to in the future." - Demis Hassabis (Demis Hassabis), CEO of Google DeepMind, on The Next Big Thing.

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Demis Hassabis describes a surreal setup: one AI playing inside the mind of another DeepMind SIMA agent can now operate within Genie 3 -- taking actions in a world that Genie generates in real time "an AI creates the world, another acts inside it" this setup could unlock unlimited training data for robotics and AGI

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🚨 THIS IS HOW THE AI BUBBLE WILL BREAK THE S&P 500 Microsoft gave OpenAI $13B. OpenAI sent it back through Azure. Microsoft booked it as revenue. Google committed $40B to Anthropic. Anthropic agreed to send it back through Google Cloud and chips. They all call this loop “revenue.” Let's connect the dots: - Big Tech invests in the AI. - The AI buys Big Tech cloud. - Big Tech reports AI growth. - AI valuations explode. And Wall Street calls it demand. Ray Dalio warned that late-stage bubbles are driven by loops. That is what this looks like now. The technology is real. But the money is moving in circles. When holders finally ask how much of this “AI demand” is real, the bubble will burst. Reminder: I’ve called all the market tops and bottoms for the last 15 years, including the Bitcoin bottom at $16,000 and the top at $126,000. The next call will be even more important. When I exit the markets completely, I’ll post it here publicly like I always do. Turn notifications on. If you’re not following yet, you’ll understand why that was a mistake later.

🚨 THIS IS HOW THE AI BUBBLE WILL BREAK THE S&P 500 Microsoft gave OpenAI $13B. OpenAI sent it back through Azure. Microsoft booked it as revenue. Google committed $40B to Anthropic. Anthropic agreed to send it back through Google Cloud and chips. They all call this loop “revenue.” Let's connect the dots: - Big Tech invests in the AI. - The AI buys Big Tech cloud. - Big Tech reports AI growth. - AI valuations explode. And Wall Street calls it demand. Ray Dalio warned that late-stage bubbles are driven by loops. That is what this looks like now. The technology is real. But the money is moving in circles. When holders finally ask how much of this “AI demand” is real, the bubble will burst. Reminder: I’ve called all the market tops and bottoms for the last 15 years, including the Bitcoin bottom at $16,000 and the top at $126,000. The next call will be even more important. When I exit the markets completely, I’ll post it here publicly like I always do. Turn notifications on. If you’re not following yet, you’ll understand why that was a mistake later.

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