DeepMind
Mentioned in 89 analyzed podcast episodes across 10 shows
An AI research company acquired by Google in 2014 for $650 million and founded by Demis Hassabis, DeepMind is widely discussed in podcasts for pioneering breakthroughs including AlphaFold (protein folding), AlphaGo, and AlphaStar, as well as for open-sourcing interpretability research. The organization is referenced as one of the original major AI labs and a key competitor in the global AI arms race, representing significant UK contributions to AI development. Podcasts also highlight DeepMind's role as a talent source for other AI ventures and its exploration of world modeling and robotics research.
Mentioned On
Episode Mentions
Practical AI · May 14, 2026
U.S. Congressman Beyer on AI challenges facing America and the World
“Referenced as having stated opposition to autonomous weapon systems without human-in-the-loop”
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis · May 13, 2026
In Defense of Tokenmaxxing
“Showed research demo of AI-enhanced mouse pointer with gesture and voice instruction capabilities”
The Vergecast · May 8, 2026
Everybody wants to rule the AI world
“Demis Hassabis positioned as existential threat to OpenAI; Google's AI research division”
TechLinked · May 7, 2026
Valve Game Console Imports, German Domain Outage, Google Chrome AI Downloads + more!
“Signed AI safety vetting deal with US Center for AI Standards and Innovation for pre-release model review”
Elon Musk Podcast · May 7, 2026
Elon Musk Sues OpenAI for Billions
“Google-acquired AI research lab that catalyzed Musk's concern about concentrated AI control and prompted OpenAI creation”
Daily Tech News Show · May 6, 2026
Love for eReaders, Hate for Browsers - DTNS 5263
“Google's DeepMind will buy stake in EVE Online and train AI models on the game”
Y Combinator Startup Podcast · Apr 29, 2026
How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis
“Hassabis co-founded DeepMind in 2010 with mission to solve intelligence; created AlphaGo, AlphaFold, and foundational agent research”
The Journal. · Apr 28, 2026
Inside Meta’s Big AI Pivot
“Referenced as one of the early AI native firms that Meta is competing against in the AI talent race”
TBPN · Apr 22, 2026
SpaceX-Cursor Deal, ChatGPT Images 2.0, Fake Bear Scam | Diet TBPN
“Mentioned as competitor that motivated Elon Musk's original OpenAI founding and XAI launch”
The Last Invention is AI · Apr 22, 2026
The Lasting Effects of Google’s AI Strategy
“Protein Predictor model generates thousands of drug candidates that 10x Science helps triage”
The Daily AI · Apr 22, 2026
Daily Insights: Google’s AI Strategy Highlights
“Protein Predictor model generates thousands of drug candidates that create bottleneck for pharma triage”
The AI Podcast · Apr 22, 2026
Google’s AI Strategy: A New Era
“Protein Predictor model generates thousands of drug candidates, creating triage bottleneck that 10x Science addresses”
Personal AI · Apr 22, 2026
Personalizing AI: Google’s Multi-Layer Strategy
“Protein Predictor model generates thousands of drug candidates, creating bottleneck that 10x Science is addressing”
No Priors AI · Apr 22, 2026
Forget What You Know: Google’s AI Strategy
“Protein Predictor model generates thousands of drug candidates that create bottleneck for 10x Science to solve”
Global News Podcast · Apr 22, 2026
Global Impacts of Google’s AI Innovations
“Protein Predictor model generates thousands of drug candidates that create bottleneck for 10x Science to solve”
Claude AI · Apr 22, 2026
Claude and Multi-Layer AI at Google
“Protein Predictor model generates thousands of drug candidates creating bottleneck that 10x Science addresses”
Building AI: News on OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, Google Gemini and xAI's Grok · Apr 22, 2026
AI Innovations from Google Cloud Next
“Protein Predictor model generates thousands of drug candidates that 10x Science helps triage”
Anthropic · Apr 22, 2026
AI Strategy Insights from Google Cloud Next
“Created Protein Predictor model generating thousands of drug candidates for pharma screening”
AI Breakdown · Apr 22, 2026
Google's AI Advances at Cloud Next
“Protein Predictor model generates thousands of drug candidates; creates bottleneck that 10x Science addresses”
The Last Invention · Apr 16, 2026
Sam Altman’s Attacker, In His Own Words
“Mentioned as frontier AI lab; subject of concern in Daniel's manifesto regarding AGI development”
Beyond The Prompt - How to use AI in your company · Apr 15, 2026
Nobody Is Getting New Manager Training for Their AI Team - with Dan Klein, UC Berkeley
“AlphaGo cited as example of synthetic data and reinforcement learning approach to building reliable, specialized AI systems”
AI For Humans: Making Artificial Intelligence Fun & Practical · Apr 10, 2026
Everyone Hates AI. Now What?
“Demis Sassabas' organization; AlphaFold breakthrough in protein folding cited as positive AI application example”
The Last Invention · Apr 9, 2026
Wetwear
“Demis Hasabis published essay advocating neuroscience-based approach to AI that inspired Han Wangchun's research”
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis · Apr 8, 2026
OpenAI's New Deal
“Philip Schmidt demonstrated Gemma 2 agentic capabilities running on iPhone for Wikipedia queries”
Modern Wisdom · Apr 2, 2026
#1079 - Tristan Harris - AI Expert Warns: “This Is The Last Mistake We’ll Ever Make”
“Leading AI lab; Dennis Asadas featured in 'The AI Doc' film discussing AI capabilities and risks”
TBPN · Mar 31, 2026
AI Is Coming for Your Memes, Axios NPM Package Compromised, Claude Code Source Code Leak | Alex Pruden, Qasar Younis, Sebastian Mallaby, Forrest Heath, Dino Mavrookas, Will Ahmed, Jannick Malling, Ryan Daniels, Chris Yu
“Featured in Sebastian Mallaby's new book about Demis Hassabis and AI development”
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard · Mar 25, 2026
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)
“Mentioned as example of deep learning-based AI company that emerged from neural network research breakthroughs”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Mar 24, 2026
Eric Schmidt: Singularity's Arrival, the 92-Gigawatt Problem, and Recursive Self-Improvement Timelines | 241
“Google acquisition for $600M that revolutionized AI, from Go victory to protein folding breakthrough AlphaFold”
A Beginner's Guide to AI · Mar 22, 2026
The Extended Mind: Why AI Might Make Humans More Creative
“Created AlphaGo system that defeated world champion Go player and changed human strategic thinking”
TBPN · Mar 17, 2026
OpenAI Ends Side Quests, SF Housing Market is Back, Kalshi’s $1B Prize | Diet TBPN
“Cited as successful Google side quest that became core to AI strategy”
The a16z Show · Mar 17, 2026
What's Missing Between LLMs and AGI - Vishal Misra & Martin Casado
“Mentioned as employer of Misra's research collaborator”
AI + a16z · Mar 17, 2026
What's Missing Between LLMs and AGI - Vishal Misra & Martin Casado
“Mentioned as current employer of one of Misra's research collaborators”
Digital Disruption with Geoff Nielson · Mar 16, 2026
AI Convergence: Amy Webb On Why This is the Year of Creative Destruction
“Google's research arm applying AI to programmable biology via Evo II model for drug discovery and materials science”
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis · Mar 1, 2026
Situational Awareness in Government, with UK AISI Chief Scientist Geoffrey Irving
“Irving's former employer and AI research lab mentioned in context of safety research”
Big Technology Podcast · Feb 25, 2026
Can AI Achieve Consciousness? — With Michael Pollan
“Discussed for Demis Hassabis's theory that information is the fundamental unit of universe”
TBPN · Feb 19, 2026
The AI lab market map, Robinhood brings startups to retail, GLPs & hedge funds | Diet TBPN
“Mentioned as one of the original big AI labs”
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Feb 18, 2026
Josh Kushner - Concentration and Conviction - [Invest Like the Best, EP.459]
“Parent organization of Isomorphic Labs before spinout; source of AI research talent”
Making Sense with Sam Harris · Feb 13, 2026
#459 — More From Sam: Corruption, Immigration, The End of White-Collar Work, and More
“Organization where Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI CEO, previously worked as one of the founders”
Dwarkesh Podcast · Feb 13, 2026
Dario Amodei — The highest-stakes financial model in history
“Mentioned as competitor developing AI systems like AlphaStar for games like StarCraft”
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Feb 12, 2026
Owning the AI Pareto Frontier — Jeff Dean
“Google subsidiary that merged efforts with Google Brain to create the unified Gemini project”
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Feb 12, 2026
🔬Beyond AlphaFold: How Boltz is Open-Sourcing the Future of Drug Discovery
“Created AlphaFold 2 and 3, the breakthrough protein folding models that revolutionized structural biology”
The Political Scene | The New Yorker · Feb 12, 2026
Can Anthropic Control What It's Building?
“AI research company acquired by Google in 2014 for $650 million; founded by Demis Hassabis”
TRIGGERnometry · Feb 11, 2026
Is This The End of Humanity? - Eric Weinstein
“Credited with developing AlphaFold breakthrough in AI, representing UK contribution to AI arms race”
Relentless · Feb 10, 2026
How micro1 grew from $4M to $200M revenue in a year | Ali Ansari
“Compared to Micro1's ability to take bold bets due to strong cash generation from core business”
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Feb 6, 2026
The First Mechanistic Interpretability Frontier Lab — Myra Deng & Mark Bissell of Goodfire AI
“Mentioned for open-sourcing SAE work on Gemma models and interpretability research”
kill switch · Feb 4, 2026
how the internet learned to extract
“AI company acquired by Google; represents tech giant acquisition of emerging technology competitors”
Possible · Feb 4, 2026
CryptoPunks creators: from art experiment to cultural movement
“AI research company referenced for pioneering scalable compute applied to learning systems and self-play”
Uncanny Valley | WIRED · Feb 3, 2026
Big Intv: Fallout Director Jonathan Nolan Says He's Still a Techno-Optimist
“AI research company acquired by Google, Nolan heard early stories about their work”
Huberman Lab · Feb 2, 2026
How Dopamine & Serotonin Shape Decisions, Motivation & Learning | Dr. Read Montague
“Created AlphaGo and AlphaFold using biological reinforcement learning algorithms, won Nobel Prizes”
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis · Feb 1, 2026
The AI-Powered Biohub: Why Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan are Investing in Data, from Latent.Space
“Mentioned for AlphaFold protein folding breakthrough using decades of publicly available data”