#google-deepmind

#google-deepmind

AI companies are duking it out for greater and greater quantities of memory chips. The problem? The industry is heavily supply-constrained. Costs have skyrocketed, products have been tied up, and some companies - especially those in consumer electronics - are increasing prices. On the AI front, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told CNBC that physical challenges were "constraining a lot of deployment."

Google has said it will invest 5bn in the UK in the next two years to help meet growing demand for artificial intelligence services, in a boost for the government. The announcement, which comes as Google opens its new datacentre in Waltham Cross in Hertfordshire, is expected to contribute to the creation of thousands of jobs, the US tech company said.

At an international summit co-hosted by the U.K. and South Korea in February 2024, Google and other signatories promised to "publicly report" their models' capabilities and risk assessments, as well as disclose whether outside organizations, such as government AI safety institutes, had been involved in testing. However, when the company released Gemini 2.5 Pro in March 2025, the company failed to publish a model card, the document that details key information about how models are tested and built.

Google first provided editing capabilities in Gemini earlier this year, and the model was more than competent out of the gate. But like all generative systems, the non-deterministic nature meant that elements of the image would often change in unpredictable ways. Google says nano banana (technically Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) has unrivaled consistency across edits-it can actually remember the details instead of rolling the dice every time you make a change.

Google said Gemini 2.5 Flash's particular strength is in keeping a person or animal's likeness the same from image to image.

As head of Google DeepMind, the tech giant's artificial intelligence arm, he's driving, if not necessarily steering, what promises to be the most significant technological revolution of our lifetimes.

"If we let Google get away with breaking their word, it sends a signal to all other labs that safety promises aren't important and commitments to the public don't need to be kept."