Google DeepMind
Mentioned in 47 analyzed podcast episodes across 10 shows
A leading AI research organization under Google, known for breakthrough systems including AlphaGo, AlphaFold (which won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry), AlphaGeometry, and generative world models like Project Genie. Led by co-founders Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg, the company conducts research toward artificial general intelligence while developing practical applications across gaming, protein folding, mathematics, and autonomous systems like Waymo. Frequently featured in podcasts discussing AI capabilities, safety considerations, AGI timelines, and the real-world impact of advanced AI systems.
Mentioned On
Episode Mentions
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis · Apr 15, 2026
Welcome to AI in the AM: RL for EE, Oversight w/out Nationalization, & the first AI-Run Retail Store
“AI research division mentioned for previous trading operations and alignment research contributions”
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis · Apr 11, 2026
It's Crunch Time: Ajeya Cotra on RSI & AI-Powered AI Safety Work, from the 80,000 Hours Podcast
“Frontier AI lab with stated safety plan incorporating AI-assisted alignment research”
Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast · Apr 8, 2026
Ep 751: Hands on with Google’s Gemma 4: How to Use The Open Source Model Locally and Why It Matters
“Developed and released Gemma 4 model family with four variants for different hardware constraints”
From First Principles · Apr 3, 2026
Artemis II, Claude Code Leak, iPhone Spyware & Project Hail Mary (EP 36)
“Major AI foundation model creator competing in generative AI space alongside Anthropic and OpenAI”
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Apr 2, 2026
An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation timelines | Simon Willison
“Published CAMEL paper proposing secure agent architecture separating privileged and quarantined agents to prevent prompt injection”
Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer · Apr 1, 2026
Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer 4/1/26
“AI research division competing with OpenAI and Anthropic in large language model development”
Big Technology Podcast · Apr 1, 2026
OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
“Competitor developing Gemini and Nano Banana image generator; CEO Demis Hassabis cited on world models and AGI”
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis · Apr 1, 2026
Success without Dignity? Nathan finds Hope Amidst Chaos, from The Intelligence Horizon Podcast
“Frontier lab developing Gemini models; research on reasoning bounds and chain-of-thought monitoring cited”
The Artificial Intelligence Show · Mar 24, 2026
#205: AI Labs Refocus on Agents and Enterprise, Trump’s New AI Framework, Meta’s Rogue Agent & What 81,000 People Want from AI
“Publishing AGI measurement framework, launching AI Studio coding platform and Stitch design tool”
The Artificial Intelligence Show · Mar 12, 2026
#202: AI Answers - AI for Marketing, Sales & Customer Success, Marketing Agent Swarms, Entry-Level Job Disruption, Environmental Impact and AI Privacy
“AI research division led by Demis Hassabis working on energy solutions”
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis · Mar 11, 2026
Bioinfohazards: Jassi Pannu on Controlling Dangerous Data from which AI Models Learn
“Developer of AlphaFold protein structure prediction model”
Hard Fork · Mar 1, 2026
At the Pentagon, OpenAI is In and Anthropic Is Out
“Employees signed solidarity letter supporting Anthropic's stance on military AI use”
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Feb 27, 2026
METR’s Joel Becker on exponential Time Horizon Evals, Threat Models, and the Limits of AI Productivity
“Mentioned for Gemini models and AI research contributions”
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis · Feb 25, 2026
Universal Medical Intelligence: OpenAI's Plan to Elevate Human Health, with Karan Singhal
“Referenced for previous medical AI research work and cautious approach to healthcare AI deployment”
Big Technology Podcast · Feb 18, 2026
How Google DeepMind Operates & Experiments — With Lila Ibrahim and James Manyika
“Main subject discussing operations, research approach, and breakthrough AI applications”
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis · Feb 18, 2026
Mathematical Superintelligence: Harmonic's Vlad Tenev & Tudor Achim on IMO Gold & Theories of Everything
“Achieved gold medal IMO performance and created AlphaGeometry system”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Feb 13, 2026
The AI CEO Arrives: Sam Altman's Succession Plan, Job Loss Continues, and Our 2027 'Solve Everything' Paper | EP #230
“AlphaFold3 cited as prototypical domain collapse example, solving protein structure determination overnight”
AI For Humans: Making Artificial Intelligence Fun & Practical · Feb 13, 2026
Seedance 2.0 Is Peak AI Video. We Tested It. Send Help.
“Launched Deep Research update with improved reasoning on ARC AGI-2 benchmark (84.6% vs competitors' lower scores)”
Proven Podcast · Feb 11, 2026
Google DeepMind Insider: You wont Survive the AI-First Economy, unless... - Steve Brown
“Steve Brown's former employer where he worked as a futurist and witnessed AI breakthroughs like AlphaFold”
From First Principles · Feb 10, 2026
FFP EP. 25 | Plants, Quantum Sensors, and Predicting Cancer Evolution
“Developed AlphaFold AI tool used to predict 3D protein structures for enzyme analysis in alkaloid synthesis research”
AI For Humans: Making Artificial Intelligence Fun & Practical · Jan 30, 2026
The AI Holodeck Just Got Real: Google's Project Genie
“Released Project Genie, a world simulation engine enabling real-time playable 3D worlds from text prompts and images”
TBPN · Jan 30, 2026
Big Tech Earnings, Elon’s SpaceX–xAI Merge, Genie 3 | Diet TBPN
“Released Genie 3 world model and created AI-generated short film for Sundance Festival”
Last Week in AI · Jan 28, 2026
#232 - ChatGPT Ads, Thinking Machines Drama, STEM
“Offering free SAT practice exams via Gemini; published research on reasoning models and sparse autoencoders”
The Artificial Intelligence Show · Jan 27, 2026
#193: AGI Talk at Davos, Amazon Layoffs, AI for Course Creation, OpenAI Cybersecurity Warning, New Claude Constitution & Credit-Based AI Pricing
Digital Disruption with Geoff Nielson · Jan 26, 2026
AI, Power, and the New Global Order with Nina Schick
“Pioneered breakthrough AI research including AlphaGo (2016) and AlphaFold; represents frontier of AI capability development”
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Jan 23, 2026
Captaining IMO Gold, Deep Think, On-Policy RL, Feeling the AGI in Singapore — Yi Tay 2
Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) · Jan 23, 2026
Why Every Brain Metaphor in History Has Been Wrong [SPECIAL EDITION]
“John Jumper, Nobel Prize winner, interviewed about prediction vs. understanding in protein folding research”
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis · Jan 17, 2026
Why CEOs Need to Lead AI Strategy
The Artificial Intelligence Show · Jan 13, 2026
#190: ChatGPT Health, Audience Reactions to AGI, Claude Code Use Cases, xAI Raises $20B & Big Gmail AI Updates
“Partnered with Boston Dynamics on humanoid robot AI integration; Gemini traffic share grew from 6% to 21.5%; rolling out Gemini 3 for Gmail”
Digital Disruption with Geoff Nielson · Jan 12, 2026
AI's Most Dangerous Truth: We've Already Lost Control
“Created AlphaGo; acquired by Google; represents major player in AI development and safety research”
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis · Jan 9, 2026
AMA Part 1: Is Claude Code AGI? Are we in a bubble? Plus Live Player Analysis
Your Undivided Attention · Jan 8, 2026
What Would It Take to Actually Trust Each Other? The Game Theory Dilemma
“Developed AlphaGo AI that made Move 37, illustrating how AI can discover novel cooperative strategies beyond human game theory”
The Journal. · Dec 29, 2025
Goodbye 2025, Hello 2026!
“Leading AI lab competing for top talent and infrastructure investment in the broader AI race”
Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing) · Dec 26, 2025
Peter Norvig: Transforming AI Into the Ultimate Human Advantage | Artificial Intelligence | AI Vault
“Referenced for AlphaFold breakthrough in protein folding, enabling drug discovery and medical research advancement”
The Artificial Intelligence Show · Dec 23, 2025
#188: AI Trends for 2026, Google DeepMind AI Predictions, Gemini 3 Flash, AI World Models & Are AI Job Losses Overblown?
“Featured in two podcast episodes discussing AGI roadmap, world models, and path to artificial general intelligence”
Google DeepMind: The Podcast · Dec 16, 2025
The Future of Intelligence with Demis Hassabis (Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind)
“Demis Hassabis is CEO and co-founder; organization conducting research on Gemini, world models, and path to AGI”
Google DeepMind: The Podcast · Dec 11, 2025
The Arrival of AGI with Shane Legg (co-founder of DeepMind)
“Shane Legg is co-founder and chief AGI scientist; the organization conducting AGI research and safety testing discussed throughout”
Google DeepMind: The Podcast · Nov 28, 2025
AlphaFold: Grand Challenge to Nobel Prize with John Jumper
“Developer of AlphaFold and related AI systems; Jumper is a researcher there; won 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry”
TED Radio Hour · Nov 28, 2025
Decoding nature’s hidden patterns
“Collaborating with researchers to develop AI models that count wolves from chorus howls using audio recordings”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Nov 27, 2025
AI Expert: We Have 2 Years Before Everything Changes! We Need To Start Protesting! - Tristan Harris
“Major AI lab pursuing AGI; mentioned for competitive pressure and safety concerns; created Transformer architecture”
The Last Invention · Nov 13, 2025
EP 7: The Scouts
“Founders attended 2015 conference; Atari demo acquisition by Google marked defining moment in AI development timeline”
Google DeepMind: The Podcast · Nov 6, 2025
Waymo: The future of autonomous driving with Vincent Vanhoucke
“Podcast host and parent organization; Vincent Vanhoucke previously worked on robotics at Google before joining Waymo”
The Artificial Intelligence Show · Oct 23, 2025
#175: AI Answers - AI for 10X Innovation, Rethinking GTM, Dangers of Progress at All Costs, Autonomous Marketing, How to Keep Up with AI, and Future of Web Traffic
Dwarkesh Podcast · Sep 26, 2025
Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end
“Developed MuZero, AlphaGo, and AlphaZero—RL systems that Sutton cites as successful applications of reinforcement learning principles”
The Artificial Intelligence Show · Aug 19, 2025
#162: GPT-5’s Messy Launch, Meta’s Troubling AI Child Policies, Demis Hassabis’ AGI Timeline & New Sam Altman / Elon Musk Drama
Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 23, 2025
#475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games
“Demis Hassabis is the leader; company developing Gemini, AlphaFold, and other foundational AI systems”
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · Jul 5, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1043 - Jul 5 2025
“Testing multi-agent AI co-scientist model using Gemini 2.0 for accelerated scientific ideation and literature review”