Google this week announced a series of impressive AI updates at its IO developer conference, including improved video generation, expanded AI Mode in search, and an advanced reasoning architecture called Deep Think. But the news came as the AI industry reckons with questions about how much better these models can get, and whether there is a path toward artificial general intelligence (a term some would rather let die due to overuse). To tackle these questions about the frontier of AI, I sat down with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis for an on-stage interview at Google IO on Tuesday. And just after I got mic’d up, Google co-founder Sergey Brin walked in and joined as a surprise guest. The conversation went deep into the technology and expanded into some interesting directions, including the future of the web, robotics, and simulation theory. Demis Hassabis: We’re seeing incredible gains with the existing techniques, pushing them to the limit. But we’re also inventing new things all the time as well. And I think to get all the way to something like AGI may require one or two more new breakthroughs. We have lots of promising ideas that we’re cooking up, that we hope to bring into the main branch of the Gemini branch.

Full interview : Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and Google co-founder Sergey Brin answer questions on AI frontier models, scaling data centers, reasoning, DeepThink, AGI, robotics.