Rowan's Notes

Demis Hassabis says we’re in the ‘foothills of the singularity’

In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) to break down:

• Why AGI is coming in 2030, plus or minus a year
• How AI will compress drug discovery from 10 years to weeks
• Why glasses are the killer app form factor AI was waiting for
• What Demis will work on after AGI (and what's left for human meaning)

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Google just revealed Omni, personalized cross-device intelligence, and Spark agents at I/O 2025.

In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with Google CEO Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) to break it all down:

• Why today's AI will look "primitive like a flip phone" in 3 years
• Engineers now becoming agent managers 
• The Omni model: "Nano Banana for video" + the future of content
• Sundar's advice for young people navigating the AI shift

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Being early to SEO helped Dharmesh Shah build HubSpot into a $30B company. Now he's obsessed with something new: AI ranking.

It's how to show up when people ask ChatGPT for recommendations instead of Googling.

In this conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with HubSpot Founder & CTO Dharmesh Shah (@dharmesh) to unpack:

• AEO (Answer Engine Optimization): SEO for the AI era
• How to structure content to get cited in AI answers
• The hidden risk of low-quality AI content
• Effectively using AI agents as teammates
• The coming “AI App Store” for agents

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Google just revealed Gemini 3.0 -- its most intelligent AI model yet with SOTA reasoning and 1501 Elo on the LMArena.

In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) to unpack:

• Gemini 3 and Google’s AI strategy
• Google's new Antigravity tool
• Medical-grade AI and proactive healthcare
• The skill of "learning how to learn"

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OpenAI just unveiled HUGE developer updates at DevDay 2025 - Apps in ChatGPT, Agent Builder, Sora in the API, and Codex updates that can handle day-long tasks.

In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (@sama) to unpack:

• Sam's Sora AI deepfakes going viral
• Zero-person billion dollar companies run by agents
• AI starting to make scientific discoveries on Twitter
•  ChatGPT's 800M weekly users and the new distribution platform

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Meta just unveiled its latest AI glasses at Connect 2025 – including Ray-Ban's with a built-in display, controlled by a band that reads muscle signals.

In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) to unpack:

• The timeline for glasses replacing smartphones
• How the Neural Band will personalize to you over time
• Building "personal superintelligence" while raising kids
• Why Zuck rebuilt Meta's AI lab within 15 feet of his desk

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Google just revealed a ton of AI developments at Google I/O 2025 - from AI Mode in Search, VEO 3, proactive agents, Gemini 2.5 upgrades, AI shopping assistants, and more.

In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) to unpack:

-How AI could cure all diseases
-Advice to the education system
-Relationships and reliance on AI
-Are humans at risk of becoming dumber?

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Microsoft just revealed its next big AI bets at Build 2025 - from autonomous coding agents, Copilot Tuning, Windows AI Foundry, and more.

In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) to unpack:

-Microsoft’s vision for the “agentic web”
-Why your next job might be AI agent manager
-What happens when 95% of code is AI-generated
-Where AI agents will create the most value first

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Google just launched Gemini 2.0, Project Astra, and AI agents for gaming & web browsing. Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down for an exclusive interview with Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind (@demishassabis), to discuss the launch, why it matters, and Google’s entry into the AI agent era.

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Exclusive: Microsoft just launched Copilot Vision in Edge—the first AI that can navigate the internet with you in real time.

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down for an exclusive interview with Mustafa Suleyman (@mustafasuleyman), CEO of Microsoft AI, to discuss how it works, infinite memory, AI companions, agents, and more.

Find all the details of Copilot Vision on Microsoft’s official announcement blog post.

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