Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick

Everyone, I had a feeling that there would be an emergency podcast of some sort on my break this summer, as AI news has been progressing so quickly, there seems to be something emergency podcast worthy every week. And so, of course. While I was flying from Uh New York to Indonesia. On the plane. I learned, or actually when we landed, I learned that Demis Asabas had stepped down as CEO of Google Deep Mind, which is some of the most seismic news.

uh of the year in AI. And I figured that what I would do would be to share a couple notes on Demis stepping down and what it means for Google and what it means for AI. And then play the full Friday show that we have recorded. It's gonna be with me and MG Siegler. We're gonna talk about uh Apple's memory issues. And then we also at the end talk about some of the brewing um uh misalignment of incentives within Google, uh misalignment of interest within Google. that a couple of days later.

uh seems to have manifested. with Demis' departure. Quick a quick couple of minutes for me here, talking a little bit about what it means, whether it's good for AI, and where Google goes from here, and then I'm gonna play the full episode. F and I'm tr gonna try to do this as quickly as possible. So first from the Wall Street Journal, Demis Asabis is stepping down as chief executive of Google Deepmind to become chairman and chief scientist. Google CEO Sundar Pajai said in a post on X. Google Deep Mind technology chief Korai Kavcholu is taking on responsibility for all AI model development, and Jeff Teen Google's

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