Former Google DeepMind scientist to raise $1 billion led by Sequoia for 'superhuman intelligence'Former Google DeepMind scientist David Silver's startup, Ineffable Intelligence, is reportedly nearing a $1 billion seed round led by Sequo...
18 Feb, 2026, 09.49 PM IST
ET@Davos 2026: AGI should lead to fresh understanding of how the world works, says Google DeepMind CEODemis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, believes AGI will revolutionize science and medicine, leading to radical abundance. He noted China'...
21 Jan, 2026, 07.17 PM IST
Davos 2026: China has caught up a lot with US, but yet to innovate beyond frontier, says Google DeepMind CEO Demis HassabisDemis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, predicts artificial general intelligence will transform science and health within a decade, usherin...
21 Jan, 2026, 12.39 AM IST
Google's top AI executive seeks the profound over profits and the "prosaic"In the scramble for AI dominance, Google risks losing the supremacy it has long enjoyed in the search industry. It was jolted when OpenAI, ...
13 Nov, 2025, 05.37 PM IST
DeepMind scientist calls LLMs 'exotic mind-like entities': Why the future of AI needs a new vocabulary?DeepMind Principal Scientist Murray Shanahan describes large language models (LLMs) as "exotic mind-like entities," highlighting our lack o...
27 Apr, 2025, 03.59 PM IST
Google DeepMind CEO says DeepSeek’s AI model is ‘best work’ from China, but hype is ‘exaggerated’Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said that DeepSeek’s AI model is probably China's most impressive work but noted that it relies on exist...
10 Feb, 2025, 11.21 PM IST
A techie had to face a 50-hour interview for a job. Why it took so long?A techie recently experienced a grueling 50-hour interview process for a top position, highlighting the intense scrutiny both the company a...
14 Dec, 2024, 09.50 PM IST
AI with reasoning power will be less predictable, Ilya Sutskever saysAccepting a "Test Of Time" award for his 2014 paper with Google's Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le, Sutskever said a major change was on AI's hori...
14 Dec, 2024, 09.07 AM IST
AI and the art of questioning: How investors can use chatbotsThe advancement of AI technology has led to the development of more complex machine learning models like rule-based systems, expert systems...
16 Jun, 2023, 08.24 PM IST
Why it's time to address the ethical dilemmas of artificial intelligenceAI's perceived risk isn't only from autonomous weapon systems that countries like the US, China, Israel and Turkey produce that can track a...
02 Apr, 2022, 12.24 AM IST
Surge in Indian applicants for master’s in AI at overseas universitiesThe number of applications from prospective Indian students has doubled and even trebled in some cases in the past one year alone, accordin...
23 Mar, 2018, 03.52 PM IST
The year of AI: A robot with a citizenship, an algo that performs better than trained cardiologistsAn AI system called Libratus beat four human players in a Texas Hold 'em Poker marathon match that lasted for 20 days.
28 Dec, 2017, 06.31 PM IST
- 'AlphaGO, Weiqi bring best in each other'
Houston, Aug 14 (IANS) A senior official of China's Weiqi Association (CWA) said on Sunday that it' s lucky for both AlphaGo and Weiqi when...
14 Aug, 2017, 07.22 AM IST
Human-level artificial general intelligence still long way to go: David Silver, Google’s DeepMind scientistDavid Silver says AlphaGo like program can be applied in several areas like medical diagnosis, household robotics, or smartphone assistants.
06 Apr, 2016, 12.26 PM IST
Chinese AI team plans to challenge Google's AlphaGo: State mediaAlphaGo, developed by Google subsidiary DeepMind, shocked audiences when it beat South Korean professional Go player Lee Sedol in Seoul ear...
31 Mar, 2016, 01.55 PM IST
10 smartest AI scientists at Google’s DeepMind LabGoogle DeepMind, a group of approximately 200 people aiming to “solve intelligence” in London, is arguably one of the most interesting AI c...
15 Mar, 2016, 05.53 AM IST
Things you should know about computer program AlphaGoAlphaGo has beaten Lee Sedol, one of the strongest players of the ancient strategy game 'Go', in what's seen as a historic breakthrough.
13 Mar, 2016, 12.08 PM IST