Demis Hassabis is CEO of Google DeepMind, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, and a former chess prodigy. I sat down with him to talk about: -How AI could cure all diseases
-The future of human-AI relationships
-Vibe coding and the moat for startups Here's what he said:
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Demis Hassabis on AI, Disease Cure, and Human Relationships
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The Rundown Launches AI University Platform with Free Tools and Courses
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Over the past few months, we’ve been quietly scaling The Rundown's AI University platform… -$1,000+ in free perks on AI tools like Manus, Bolt, Freepik, Genspark, and more
-Live workshops with Canva, Zapier, Windsurf, Meta, and more
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AI-Written Code and Developer Orchestration at Anthropic
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Behind the scenes fireside with Anthropic and the press: “Over 70% new of pull requests are now AI written” “Developers are orchestrating Claude Code now”
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Dario Amodei predicts billion-dollar AI agent company by 2026
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Dario Amodei fireside at the event: Question: When do you think there will be a billion dollar company run by agents? “2026”
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Claude Code Now Generally Available with IDE Integration and Live Changes
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Claude Code news/features: —Now generally available
—Integrates with VSCode and Jetbrains IDEs
—You can now see changes live inline in your editor
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Claude 4 Opus: Advanced Features and Capabilities Unveiled
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Some more details on Claude 4 Opus: —Matches or beats the best models in the world
—SOTA for coding, agentic tool use, and writing
—Memory capabilities across sessions
—Extended thinking mode for complex problem-solving
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Opus 4 vs Sonnet 4: Hybrid models comparison details
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Adding more details as they come: —Both models are hybrid models
—Opus 4 is great at understanding codebases and “the right choice” for agentic workflows
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Anthropic Unveils Claude 4 Opus and Sonnet with 7-Hour Autonomous Coding
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It’s happening Anthropic just announced Claude 4 Opus and Claude 4 Sonnet just now at the Code with Claude event Early testers said it could code autonomously for up to seven hours
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AI News Digest Coming Soon – Newsletter Update
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As always, I'll be sending out a more in-depth rundown on all the AI news, and why it actually matters in ~5 hours in my newsletter. Join 1,000,000+ readers for free and never miss a thing in AI ever again:
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LMArena Secures $100M Funding from a16z and UC Investments
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Famous AI benchmarking platform LMArena scored $100M in funding from a16z and UC Investments
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 22 mai 2025
It will use the capital to build on its work, starting with the launch of a revamped website, built with community feedback, next weekpic.twitter.com/jzA3rw7cz8Famous AI benchmarking platform LMArena scored $100M in funding from a16z and UC Investments It will use the capital to build on its work, starting with the launch of a revamped website, built with community feedback, next week