Koray Kavukcuoglu is the chief technology officer of DeepMind and Google’s chief AI architect. He has been leading the work to develop Gemini 3, the Big Tech company’s latest AI large language model (LLM), which was released in November. One of the new features of the model is that it can create interactive apps and widgets based on user search queries. The capabilities of the new LLM have impressed rivals, leading OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman to declare a “code red” over the need to improve ChatGPT, his company’s popular chatbot, and catch up with Google. Working in Google’s advantage is that the company owns the full AI stack, meaning it has the hardware, data centres, chips and all other elements that enable frontier AI research. It can then release any new products straight to its huge customer base.

Full interview : Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu answers questions on his new role as Google’s chief AI architect, Gemini 3, progress toward the goal of AGI, and more.