Apr 29, 2026

How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, outlines the remaining challenges on the path to AGI, including memory, continual learning, and true reasoning. He discusses how learnings from AlphaGo are shaping agent development, the strategic importance of powerful small models like Gemma, and his vision for AI as the ultimate tool for scientific discovery, offering a framework for identifying breakthrough opportunities and advice for founders building in the age of AI.

Apr 29, 2026

Build & deploy AI-powered apps — Paige Bailey, Google DeepMind

A developer-focused, demo-heavy session on rapid AI prototyping using the Google DeepMind stack. It covers how to leverage the full capabilities of AI Studio, from video analysis and code execution with Gemini 3.1 Flash, to building full-stack applications with databases, and exploring the frontiers of generative media with Genie 3, Veo 3.1 Lite, and Lyria 3.

Apr 20, 2026

Full Workshop: Build Your Own Deep Research Agents - Louis-François Bouchard, Paul Iusztin, Samridhi

This hands-on workshop details the construction of a sophisticated, dual-part AI system for producing high-quality technical content. It begins with an MCP-powered deep research agent that autonomously plans, searches the web, and analyzes sources like YouTube to synthesize a grounded research artifact. The second part is a constrained, deterministic writing workflow that transforms this research into polished, non-sloppy content using an innovative "Evaluator-Optimizer" pattern for iterative refinement. The session emphasizes crucial AI engineering principles, such as choosing between agentic and workflow-based architectures, and concludes with a deep dive into implementing practical observability and evaluation pipelines to ensure the system is both measurable and improvable.

Mar 10, 2026

The Top 100 Consumer AI Apps | The a16z Show

Anish Acharya and Olivia Moore from a16z discuss the 6th edition of their "Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps" report. They analyze the diverging strategies of ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini; explore global adoption trends and cultural attitudes towards AI; and delve into the rise of agents, the importance of memory, and the future of creative tools and voice interfaces.

Dec 16, 2025

The future of intelligence | Demis Hassabis (Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind)

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis discusses the path to AGI, focusing on the scientific frontiers of the next decade. He covers the importance of solving 'root node' problems like fusion energy, the challenge of 'jagged intelligence' in current models, and the promise of world models and simulations like Genie and SimA. The conversation also explores the balance between scientific rigor and commercial competition, and the profound societal and philosophical questions AGI will force us to confront.

Nov 11, 2025

How Google’s Nano Banana Achieved Breakthrough Character Consistency

Nicole Brichtova and Hansa Srinivasan, the leads behind Google's Nano Banana image model, detail the technical breakthroughs in character consistency. They discuss how a focus on high-quality data, Gemini's multimodal architecture, and rigorous human evaluation enabled the model to realistically represent individuals from a single photo. The conversation covers the future of visual AI, moving beyond text prompts to specialized UIs, and the ultimate goal of a single, powerful model that can transform any modality into another, unlocking new applications in personalized education, professional design, and creative storytelling.