Google DeepMind chief executive Demis Hassabis says the company is focused on execution and product delivery rather than reacting to competitive pressure from OpenAI.
In December, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared a company-wide “code red” following Google’s recent Gemini product update.
When asked in a new Financial Times interview whether the directive had any impact on DeepMind’s strategy, Hassabis says Google’s approach is to ignore the noise.
“It’s fine. We just focus on ourselves, and I think that’s what we’ve got to do, is kind of block out the noise and just execute, focus on the quality of our research, and then making sure we’re shipping that quality fast enough into our product surfaces.”
Hassabis points to rapid growth across Google’s AI products as evidence that the strategy is working, particularly in consumer-facing deployments.
“And I think that’s what you’ve seen with our share of the chatbot space with the Gemini app. It’s gone up to 650 million monthly users now. And then things like AI Overview, two billion users. I think it’s the most used AI product in the world. So we’re really proud and pleased with how that’s going.”
Despite the scale of growth, Hassabis says Google believes it is still early in its AI rollout.
“But I think we’re just scratching the surface of what we can really do when we’re fully in our groove.”
Just last week, Hassabis hinted Google is poised to come out on top of the AI race as the tech giant is the only firm that covers all layers of the tech stack, from chips all the way up to applications.
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