Google DeepMind CTO: Advancing AI Frontier, New Reasoning Methods, Video Generation’s Potential

20/05/2025 30 min
Google DeepMind CTO: Advancing AI Frontier, New Reasoning Methods, Video Generation’s Potential

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Koray Kavukcuoglu is the Chief Technology Officer of Google DeepMind. Kavukcuoglu joins Big Technology to discuss how his team is pushing the frontier of AI research inside Google as the company's Google IO developer event gets underway. Tune in to hear Kavukcuoglu break down the value of brute scale versus novel techniques and how the new inference-time “DeepThink” mode could supercharge reasoning. We also cover Veo 3’s sound-synced video generation, the open-source-versus-proprietary debate, and what a ten-percent jump in model quality might unlock for users everywhere.
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