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Demis Hassabis on Building DeepMind, AlphaFold, and the Final Stretch to AGI
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Sequoia partner Konstantine Buhler interviews Demis Hassabis, co-founder of Google DeepMind and Nobel laureate, on the Google podcast Training Data. Hassabis discusses the path to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), predicting its achievement by 2030. He also touches on AlphaFold's impact on drug discovery and his view of information as the universe's fundamental substance. The conversation explores Einstein's perspective on current AI models and the critical nature of the next few years for humanity.
Demis Hassabis, a leader in AI, talks about when we might achieve super-smart AI, like a human brain. He also explains how AI is speeding up scientific discoveries, like finding new medicines, and why this progress is so important for everyone.
This episode offers direct insights from a leading AI figure on the timeline and implications of AGI. It's for anyone tracking AI's rapid advancement, particularly those interested in its potential to revolutionize fields like medicine. Hassabis's perspective connects directly to the AGI race among frontier labs like Google Gemini, OpenAI, and Anthropic, highlighting the profound societal shifts on the horizon.
- HostSequoia Capital
- GuestDemis Hassabisco-founder and CEO, Google DeepMind
- Guest: Demis Hassabis
- Title: Demis Hassabis on Building DeepMind, AlphaFold, and the Final Stretch to AGI
- Show: Training Data
- Length: 27 minutes
- AGI Timeline: Achievable by 2030
- Drug Discovery Impact: Collapse from ten years to days
Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind and 2024 Nobel laureate in chemistry for AlphaFold, joins Sequoia partner Konstantine Buhler at AI Ascent 2026 for a wide-ranging conversation about the path to AGI and what comes after. He explains why he believes AGI is achievable by 2030, why drug discovery could collapse from ten years to days, and why we should think of information, not matter or energy, as the most fundamental substance in the universe. Also: what Einstein would tell us about the limits of today's models, and why the next year or two will be critical for humanity.
- AGI
- Demis Hassabis
- Artificial General Intelligence, or AI that can perform any intellectual task a human can.
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