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Demis Hassabis claims AI can cure all diseases within 10 years, backed by a $2.1B funding round for Isomorphic Labs to accelerate AI-driven drug discovery and personalized medicine.

DeepMind introduces an experimental AI-powered mouse pointer that understands visual context and intent, aiming to streamline user interactions with AI across different applications.

Gary Marcus highlights recent DeepMind research confirming that LLMs frequently memorize and regurgitate training data, countering past criticism from Geoffrey Hinton. The post underscores ongoing debates about LLM limitations and their real-world capabilities.

The article reviews DeepMind's decision-making process behind open-sourcing AlphaFold in 2021, praising Demis Hassabis's leadership style for taking risks and freely making basic research available. It also notes that although this initiative did not generate direct profits, it successfully led to the creation of Isomorphic Labs, valued at $2 billion.

Google DeepMind's AI co-mathematician achieves state-of-the-art results on hard problem-solving benchmarks, scoring 48% on FrontierMath Tier 4, the highest among all AI systems evaluated.

Google DeepMind has taken a minority stake in EVE Online's developer (now Fenris Creations) to use the game as a testbed for AI models, studying intelligence in complex, dynamic systems without affecting live players.

DeepMind highlights the expanded impact of AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered coding agent, demonstrating its ability to optimize algorithms for genomics, grid optimization, earth sciences, quantum physics, and mathematics.

Google DeepMind teases details accessible via a link shared at the Google Cloud Next event.

DeepMind introduces Decoupled DiLoCo, a new distributed AI training architecture that enables resilient, low-bandwidth training of large models across globally dispersed data centers by isolating hardware failures.

Deepmind's upgraded Gemini Deep Research dramatically accelerates scientific literature review, autonomously synthesizing multi-modal data and reshaping workflows in finance, biotech, and consulting.

Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby discussed AI industry dynamics at a San Francisco event, with Mallaby predicting a 50% chance of OpenAI bankruptcy within 18 months.

Google DeepMind is hiring five game-focused roles to collaborate with developers and push AI-driven gaming innovations.

Google DeepMind’s Gemma family of open models has surpassed 500 million downloads, praised for offering the highest capability-per-bit among open-source LLMs.

A viral tweet captures a DeepMind engineer’s quiet despair as his workload evaporates—an ominous sign of Google’s stealth layoffs by attrition.

Google DeepMind senior scientist Alexander Lerchner argues that large language models cannot achieve consciousness, dubbing the assumption the 'Abstraction Fallacy' and suggesting this limitation persists even over a century-long timeframe.

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, a specialized AI model enhancing embodied reasoning for robotics through improved spatial awareness, task planning, and instrument reading capabilities.

Google DeepMind releases new research and a toolkit for empirically measuring AI's potential to engage in harmful manipulation, based on studies with over 10,000 participants.

Google DeepMind released a paper proposing a cognitive framework to measure progress toward AGI, identifying ten key cognitive abilities and launching a Kaggle hackathon to build relevant evaluations.

DeepMind reflects on the 10th anniversary of AlphaGo, highlighting its role in kickstarting the modern AI era and its subsequent impact on scientific research and the pursuit of AGI.

DeepMind announces Gemini Deep Think's ability to solve professional research problems in mathematics, physics, and computer science, highlighted by a new agent 'Aletheia' that iteratively verifies and revises solutions.