DeepMind
Mentioned in 67 analyzed podcast episodes across 10 shows
An AI research company acquired by Google in 2014 for $650 million and founded by Demis Hassabis, known for developing breakthrough AI systems including AlphaGo, AlphaFold (which revolutionized protein folding and structural biology), and AlphaStar. The organization is discussed across podcasts as a major player in the AI arms race and one of the original big AI labs, notable for its work in mechanistic interpretability, robotics research, and world modeling. DeepMind is frequently referenced alongside its parent company Google in conversations about the competitive landscape of AI development and talent, including notable figures like Mustafa Suleyman who later became Microsoft's AI CEO.
Mentioned On
Episode Mentions
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 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”
Uncanny Valley | WIRED · Jan 30, 2026
BIG INTV: Silicon Valley Tech Workers’ Campaign to Get ICE Out of US Cities
“Employees pressed leadership on protecting workers from ICE and federal government overreach.”
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Jan 28, 2026
🔬 Automating Science: World Models, Scientific Taste, Agent Loops — Andrew White
The Peterman Pod · Jan 26, 2026
Ex-Citadel Quant and AI Researcher On Breaking In, Tech vs Finance Careers
“Mentioned as example of big AI lab where guest could have worked instead of joining startup”
Just A Moment · Jan 26, 2026
Ai's Pivotal Moment - AlphaGo's Move 37
“Research lab that created AlphaGo, the AI program that defeated Lee Sedol at Go in 2016”
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis · Jan 22, 2026
AGI Timelines Shift Forward
TBPN · Jan 21, 2026
Kling Crosses 12M, China’s Aging Tech Problem, Thinking Machine Turmoil | Rich Greenfield, Jan Sramek, George Lewin, Ara Kharazian
My First Million · Jan 19, 2026
Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis · Jan 15, 2026
AI's Battle for Your Context
TBPN · Jan 10, 2026
AI Needs a Steve Jobs, Meta’s Nuclear Powerplants, a16z raises $15B | Diet TBPN
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis · Jan 9, 2026
Why Everyone Is Obsessed With Claude Code
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis · Jan 1, 2026
Confronting the Intelligence Curse, w/ Luke Drago of Workshop Labs, from the FLI Podcast
Dwarkesh Podcast · Dec 30, 2025
Adam Marblestone – AI is missing something fundamental about the brain
“Referenced for AlphaZero, AlphaGo, and temporal difference learning research that influenced neuroscience understanding”
The AI XR Podcast · Dec 30, 2025
The Year AI Became Militarized: Shelly Palmer on Government, Defense, and $3 Trillion Stacked
“Referenced as pursuing world modeling approach similar to Jan LeCun's new venture”
Elon Musk Podcast · Dec 23, 2025
Musk Says xAI Will Ship an AI-Generated Game by 2026 - EP#1184
Pivot · Dec 23, 2025
The AI Dilemma with Tristan Harris – The Prof G Pod
“Google subsidiary; co-founder Demis Hassabis quoted on intelligence as foundation for all technology advancement”
Hard Fork · Dec 19, 2025
Why Roomba Died + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin’ Xmas Song
“Working on solving Millennium Prize problems, particularly Navier-Stokes equations”
Your Undivided Attention · Dec 18, 2025
America and China Are Racing to Different AI Futures
“AI research lab where researchers discussed AGI development in early 2000s internet forums”
Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing) · Dec 15, 2025
Reid Hoffman: Superagency, How AI Will Help Humans Dominate the Future | Artificial Intelligence | AI Vault
“Referenced as organization influencing Reid's thinking about AI potential and timing”
硅谷101 · Dec 11, 2025
E217｜机器人开可乐发扑克有多难？聊聊灵巧手的硬件与算法
“Conducting robotics research; mentioned as participant in discussions on world models and robot training”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Dec 4, 2025
The Man Who Wrote The Book On AI: 2030 Might Be The Point Of No Return! We've Been Lied To About AI!
“CEO Demis Hassabis predicts AGI 2030-2035; subsidiary of Google; takes AI safety more seriously than some competitors”
Dwarkesh Podcast · Nov 25, 2025
Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
“Referenced in context of AI research and development approaches”
The Artificial Intelligence Show · Nov 25, 2025
#182: Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro, GPT-5.1 Pro, Nvidia Earnings, Karen Hao Book Controversy & Entry-Level Unemployment
“Google subsidiary providing AI research capabilities; talent source for Project Prometheus recruitment”