#Google DeepMind

Google robots hit 96% on factory kitting

DeepMind says Gemini Robotics 2.5 learns dexterous tasks faster and hit 96% on Mercedes-Benz kitting with Apptronik Apollo 2.

DeepMind proved Signal code with 6M lines

Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Code generated 6M lines of Lean to verify Signal's crypto code in four weeks, with humans reviewing 1%.

YC Founder Says Cancer Is Now a Data Problem

AMA co-founder Alfredo told Y Combinator personalized AI labs can mine each tumor's genome to guide care now.

Google's AI coworker hides keys by design

Philipp Schmid demoed Gemini Managed Agents with a proxy that hides keys from the model to block remote prompt-injection theft.

Genie 4 adds audio and live Gemini control

Google for Developers debuted Genie 4 with native audio, photorealistic visuals from Gemini Omni Flash and live Gemini steering for real-time worlds.

Google's Gemini 4 Carbon pushes cyber defense first

Google DeepMind says Gemini 4 Carbon leads cyber defense benchmarks and will roll out first to defenders via its Fairwind Program.

Google says managed agents push code off your laptop

Jack Wotherspoon demoed Gemini managed agents that run the anti-gravity harness in a cloud sandbox and keep secrets behind a proxy.

The skeptics were wrong because scaling never stopped

Kevin Roose told Sam Harris the AI skeptics bet on a plateau that never came, and traced the timeline from 2017 scaling laws to reasoning models.

Frontier models still fail the buy-side memo test

Google DeepMind and LinqAlpha showed why frontier models fail as buy-side analysts and previewed Mandate Bench, a 50-task memo benchmark.

Google Antigravity bets models manage themselves

Google Antigravity 2.0 splits the IDE from its agent manager and bets on teams of sub-agents that build kernels and eval reports, but key triggers remain gated.

Google ships voice AI that talks while it thinks

Google DeepMind launched Gemini 3.8 Live and Extended Thinking Sep 15 to make voice agents reason and use tools without breaking conversation.

AlphaGenome Atlas Maps 9 Billion DNA Variants

DeepMind's 1-petabyte AlphaGenome Atlas precomputes molecular effects for all 9 billion possible human DNA variants.

Gemini agentic video understanding cuts costs

Gemini agentic video understanding cuts token use up to 88% and cost up to 66% while boosting accuracy, now live in Gemini Flash models.

DeepMind's Multimodal Collaborative Agents

Google DeepMind's Nidhi Kaushik Vyas demos a three-phase loop for agents that handle fuzzy shopping intent with visual elicitation.

Can AI Learn Mathematical Intuition?

A Toronto mathematician says AI's best proof repurposed 1960s ideas to break a geometry conjecture, but theory building still needs humans.

Today in AI: Mathematics of AI Uncertainty

Google DeepMind's Zubin Ghahramani argues AI needs explicit Bayesian uncertainty, not just scale, to be trustworthy in the real world.

Persistent AI Coworkers Are OpenAI's Third Era

OpenAI's Tara Seshan says persistent AI coworkers follow chat and agents, with products built for models 2-3 months ahead.

DeepMind Pilots Double-Blind AI Tests

Google DeepMind launches the first double-blind AI evaluation system, using cryptography to ensure model test integrity and build trust.

Demis Hassabis: Two Labs, Three Titles, and a $3.5B Drug Bet

Demis Hassabis now holds three formal roles inside Alphabet: Chairman of Google DeepMind, CEO of Isomorphic Labs, and the company's first Chief Scientist. StartupHub.ai data shows DeepMind employs 8,831 people with $1.33 billion in annual revenue, while Isomorphic Labs closed a $2.1 billion Series B in May 2026, carries a $3.5 billion valuation, and has $3 billion in combined pharmaceutical partnership ceilings with Eli Lilly and Novartis.

Google DeepMind Clarifies Full-Stack AI Meaning

DeepMind's Game AI Evolves

Google DeepMind is advancing AI research through complex game environments, partnering with studios like Fenris Creations to develop general-purpose AI agents.

AI Agents Tested in Live Reasoning Competition

The Grounded Reasoning Cup revealed AI agents' struggle with generalization on complex enterprise documents, with Stanford winning by optimizing system design.

Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash: Smarter, Cheaper AI

Google DeepMind launches Gemini 3.7 Flash, an enhanced AI model for coding and agents, at half the price of its predecessor.

Google DeepMind Puts Sign Language AI in Hands

Google DeepMind launches SL2T, bringing sign language translation to Gboard and Live Transcribe, enhancing digital accessibility for millions.

Demis Hassabis Steps Down as DeepMind CEO, Moves to AGI Focus

Demis Hassabis stepped down as CEO of Google DeepMind on August 5, 2026, taking on a chairman and Alphabet chief scientist role to focus on AGI strategy and Isomorphic Labs. The announcement came the same day Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le revealed they were leaving Google to co-found Discovery Loop. Alphabet shed roughly 5 percent of its market value on the news.

Sundar Pichai's AI Empire: Cloud Hits $25B, Waymo Worth $126B

In Q2 2026, Google Cloud posted $24.77 billion in revenue, up 82% year-on-year, making it the fastest-growing major cloud platform on record. Alongside it, Alphabet committed $40 billion to Anthropic and Waymo secured a $126 billion valuation. Here is the complete breakdown of Sundar Pichai's AI portfolio.

Demis Hassabis Turns DeepMind Into Alphabet's $205B AI Engine

Google Cloud jumped 82 pct to $24.8 billion in Q2 2026, with DeepMind's Gemini models at the center. Here's how Demis Hassabis underpins Alphabet's $205 billion AI capex commitment and Isomorphic Labs's $2.1 billion drug discovery bet.

Google Pledges $40M for Genesis Mission AI

Google commits $40 million in AI resources to accelerate scientific discovery through the White House's Genesis Mission.

Google DeepMind VP on AI's Role in Coding's Future

Google DeepMind's Benoit Schillings discusses how AI is reshaping software engineering, from code generation to scientific discovery.

DeepMind's Bioresilience Play

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are leveraging AI for bioresilience, focusing on prevention, detection, and response to global health threats.

Demis Hassabis & Wendy Hall on AI's Future Skills Gap

Demis Hassabis and Wendy Hall discuss AI's future, skills gaps, AGI timelines, and the need for global governance.

Google DeepMind's Philipp Schmid on Testing AI Agent Skills

Philipp Schmid of Google DeepMind urges AI developers to stop shipping untested agent skills and implement rigorous evaluation processes to ensure reliability.

India Taps Google Gemini for AI Education

India leverages Google's Gemini AI with the launch of ATL Saathi, an educational assistant for teachers to foster innovation in schools.

Sergey Brin's AGI Bet: Coding Gemini After Years of 'Spiraling'

Google co-founder Sergey Brin described retirement as making him 'spiral' and came back to code Gemini. At Google I/O 2025, he declared Google would build the world's first AGI. Here is the full arc of his return.

DeepMind Partners With A24 for AI in Film

Google DeepMind and A24 forge a unique research partnership to integrate AI tools into film creation, shaping the future of entertainment.

Google Boosts AI: Faster Images, Video Tools

Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast, cheap image generation and makes Gemini Omni Flash available for video editing.

Demis Hassabis Says Google Leads AI Talent Race as Researchers Defect

Hassabis told Semafor on June 23 that Google DeepMind still wins the AI talent war, days after four researchers joined Anthropic. Here is what his dual mandate at Isomorphic Labs and Alphabet's $20B Google Cloud quarter mean for that claim.

UK trials AI for faster house planning

UK government partners with Google DeepMind on an AI prototype to drastically cut house planning application times.

DiffusionGemma: Google's AI is 4x Faster

Google DeepMind's DiffusionGemma model offers up to 4x faster text generation, enabling new real-time AI applications.

Google DeepMind Discusses Open Models & AI Ownership

Google DeepMind's Gus Martins and Ian Ballantyne discuss the benefits of open AI models like Gemma for ownership, control, and custom applications.

Gemini's Audio Stack: From Transcription to Music Generation

Google DeepMind's Thor Schaeff explores Gemini's audio stack, from advanced transcription to music generation with Lyria 3.

Google Rolls Out Gemini 3.5 Live Translate

Google's new Gemini 3.5 Live Translate offers real-time speech-to-speech translation across 70+ languages, enhancing Google Translate and Meet.

Google's Gemma 4 12B: AI on Your Laptop

Google's Gemma 4 12B model brings efficient, multimodal AI directly to laptops with a novel unified architecture.

Google DeepMind Fuels European Robotics Startups

Google DeepMind's new accelerator program supports 15 European robotics startups, providing AI expertise and mentorship to build the future of physical AI.

Gemini AI Boosts Math Skills in Sierra Leone Trial

Gemini's Guided Learning AI significantly boosted math scores in an 8-week Sierra Leone trial, demonstrating AI's potential as a teacher's assistant without replacing educators.

Demis Hassabis's Isomorphic Labs: $2.7B Raised, Trials Due This Year

Isomorphic Labs raised $2.7B total through May 2026. How the pharma deals with Lilly and Novartis work, what IsoDDE changed, and when trials begin.

Brendon Dillon on Text Diffusion at Google DeepMind

Brendon Dillon from Google DeepMind discusses the advancements and potential of text diffusion models in language generation, highlighting advantages over autoregressive models.

AI Engineer Melbourne 2026 Keynote Livestream

Livestream of AI Engineer Melbourne 2026, Day 1, featuring keynotes and discussions with support from major tech sponsors.

Google DeepMind Explains AI Agent Building Struggles

Philipp Schmid from Google DeepMind explains the core challenges senior engineers face when building AI agents, contrasting traditional engineering with agentic development.

Google DeepMind Tackles AI Evaluation Challenges

Google DeepMind's Nicholas Kang and Michael Aaron discuss the challenges in current AI evaluation and Kaggle's innovative solutions like Hackathons, Agent Exams, and Game Arena.