Fighting In Switzerland The news from Davos this week has, unsurprisingly, focused on President Donald Trump’s latest will-they-won’t-they. As in, will the US seize Greenland? But there’s also another saga unfolding over whether AI startups and research companies can justify their sky-high valuations and spending sprees with meaningful revenue. Some argue that OpenAI has already … Read more
New Google research into DeepSeek and Alibaba Cloud’s artificial intelligence models has found that powerful reasoning models capable of “thinking” demonstrated internal cognition resembling the mechanisms underpinning human collective intelligence. The findings published on Thursday suggested that perspective diversity, not just computational scale, was responsible for the increasing “intelligence” of AI models, while also underscoring … Read more
Left: Elon Musk, Right: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and X owner has praised Google’s latest artificial intelligence video generation model, Veo 3, calling it “awesome”. The remarks come following its unveiling at the company’s annual developer conference Google I/O 2025 this week. The model, developed by Google DeepMind, represents … Read more
Google is going big on artificial intelligence (AI) at I/O 2025, its annual developer conference, which kicks off on May 20 in Mountain View, California. Chief executive Sundar Pichai, DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and other top executives are expected to unveil major updates, with AI once again front and centre. What to expect The company’s … Read more
Google DeepMind has unveiled AlphaEvolve, an evolutionary coding agent designed to autonomously discover novel algorithms and scientific solutions. Presented in the paper titled “AlphaEvolve: A Coding Agent for Scientific and Algorithmic Discovery,” this research represents a foundational step toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and even Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). Rather than relying on static fine-tuning or … Read more
Microsoft AI VP Nando de Freitas acknowledged Google’s DeepMind for its new AI models while addressing restrictive employment contracts at DeepMind. He received multiple requests for help from distressed DeepMind employees regarding notice periods and noncompete agreements but directed them to internal leadership instead. Microsoft AI Vice President Nando de Freitas publicly acknowledged Google DeepMind’s … Read more
Gemini 2.5 Google Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google DeepMind’s latest large-scale multimodal AI model, engineered with built-in “thinking” capabilities to handle complex tasks. As the first release in the Gemini 2.5 series, the Pro model leads many industry benchmarks by meaningful margins and demonstrates strong reasoning and coding abilities. In contrast to earlier AI generations … Read more
Alphabet’s Google on Wednesday announced updates to its Gemini family of large language models, including a new product line with competitive pricing to low-cost artificial intelligence models like that of Chinese rival DeepSeek. The tech giant offers several versions of Gemini that vary in price and performance. It already offered a lightweight variant known as … Read more
The generative AI boom continued at pace in 2024, with smartphones becoming a key battleground for the technology’s development as Samsung, Google and Apple all introduced new AI tools to their devices. Many commentators and the tech firms themselves have said a big hurdle when it comes to generative AI features is getting them in … Read more