VP of Marketing @Google for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Sharing my thoughts on life behind the curtain here at Google. Views my own.
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Yonca Dervisoglu retweeted
Early reaction on @demishassabis stepping back:
Demis has been playing the role of Google AI statesman for some time, and Koray Kavukcuoglu has been running Google DeepMind research for some time. So this is a formalization of something that had been happening informally. I doubt it changes how well Google executes on AI, and nor does it justify the market's reaction--Alphabet down 5%.
DeepMind's mission has always been to solve AGI and then use it to solve everything else. The solving AGI piece is pretty much done. The channeling AGI into safe and beneficial outcomes is only just beginning. So it makes sense that Demis is shifting his energy from the research to the social impact.
This isn't out of character. Demis cared about safety enough that he sold DeepMind to Google, not to Facebook, even though Facebook offered more money. He cared enough about safety that he fought a three-year battle with Alphabet to get external oversight over DeepMind's AI deployment. This next chapter of his career is a return to that side of his work.
Meanwhile Demis continues to lead Isomorphic Labs, which gives him an opportunity to show how AI can help humanity via medicine.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping aside axios.com/2026/08/05/google-…
Yonca Dervisoglu retweeted
Amaze! Amaze! Amaze!: quillette.com/2026/04/17/inf…
Yonca Dervisoglu retweeted
🇬🇧 It’s here! We’re rolling out Veo 3 in the UK and making it available for Pro subscribers to try. We can’t wait to see (and hear) what you create.
[Disclaimer] Results for illustrative purposes, may vary. Subscription required. 18+. Create responsibly.
Yonca Dervisoglu retweeted
Happy to share that we’re giving UK uni students access to our best models - including Gemini 2.5 Pro and NotebookLM. They’re amazing tools for research, writing, exam prep… I wish I’d had them while I was at uni :) Enjoy, and good luck with this exam season!
UK Uni Students!🇬🇧 Level up your studies with Gemini in Google AI Pro - now FREE for 15 months 🚀 Grasp complex topics, smash your exams, plus get 2TB of free storage, the best of NotebookLM and more. Sign up by June 30, 2025 at goo.gle/44H0zXv
Yonca Dervisoglu retweeted
Veo3 artık Türkiye’de. ✨ Gemini’ı sen de dene.
Prompt: Bol fıstıklı baklavadan yapılmış bir bilgisayar klavyesi hayal et. Bir kişininin ellerini baklavadan tuşlara basarak dizüstü bilgisayarında yazı yazarken görüyoruz.
Yonca Dervisoglu retweeted
When We Stayed
"The Istanbul Uprising"
AI Film, Powered by Veo 3 - By Ozan Sihay
Yonca Dervisoglu retweeted
*Coming soon to the UK!*
Veo 3 lets you generate videos with sound effects, background noises and even dialogue.
[Disclaimer] Coming soon. Results for illustrative purposes, may vary. Subscription required for certain features. 18+. Create responsibly.
Yonca Dervisoglu retweeted
“He’s building tools that don’t just help us understand life, but help us shape it wisely.”
We’re thrilled to see our CEO @DemisHassabis recognized as one of @TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the world. 🌍
Find out why → time.com/collections/100-mos…
📸 Photograph by David Vintiner for TIME
Yonca Dervisoglu retweeted
Think you know Gemini? 🤔 Think again.
Meet Gemini 2.5: our most intelligent model 💡 The first release is Pro Experimental, which is state-of-the-art across many benchmarks - meaning it can handle complex problems and give more accurate responses.
Try it now → goo.gle/4c2HKjf
Congratulations @demishassabis !!
Great to be honoured as a Citation Laureate, and more importantly, it’s a testament to the amazing impact #AlphaFold has had on the life sciences.
Congratulations Demis!!
Delighted and honoured to receive a Knighthood for services to AI. It’s been an incredible journey so far building @GoogleDeepMind over the past 15 years, helping accelerate the field and grow the UK & global AI ecosystems. Thanks to everyone who helped make this dream possible!
Yonca Dervisoglu retweeted
Excited for our latest breakthrough published in @Nature today, #FunSearch ('searching' in 'function' space) is the first system to make new verifiable discoveries in open problems in math & CS, we applied it to find a more efficient solution to the classic 'bin packing' problem
Introducing FunSearch in @Nature: a method using large language models to search for new solutions in mathematics & computer science. 🔍
It pairs the creativity of an LLM with an automated evaluator to guard against hallucinations and incorrect ideas. 🧵 dpmd.ai/x-funsearch
Huge honour to be at @ClivedenLitFest this weekend. Surrounded by authors and books felt like being a kid in a candy shop! Thanks to Yana Peel and fellow panellists @WillGompertzBBC and @albertread for a great convo on creativity and AI. Thanks for having me!
At The Clock Tower Stage, The Imagination Muscle: How creativity can thrive in the age of AI, Yana Peel chairs a discussion with @YoncaD, @WillGompertzBBC and @albertread #ClivedenLitfest #CLF23
Interested in learning how AI can help your business thrive? Join Google Marketing Live this week to find out more. Register to join us on 24 May, 2pm BST goo.gle/42ji2Bb. #GML2023
A great wrap up of the big announcements from #GoogleIO. We have a big opportunity to make AI even more helpful for people and businesses everywhere, with our bold and responsible approach.
1/Today at #GoogleIO we shared the bold and responsible approach we're taking to use AI to reimagine our products, including Search with a new generative search experience coming first to Labs. You can sign up starting today. g.co/labs
blog.google/products/search/…
Yonca Dervisoglu retweeted
Ramadan Mubarak! Wishing everyone who is observing a peaceful holiday and an easy fast. g.co/kgs/XK8SoC
Yonca Dervisoglu retweeted
Turkish actor and civil rights activist @memetalialabora directed the @welshrefcouncil film, ‘Wales is a Nation of Sanctuary’.
It won the @SmileyCFA Grand Prix Charity Film of the Year award.
Here’s Memet speaking to us about the status of refugees in the UK 👇
We’re opening up access to Bard, an experiment that lets you collaborate with generative AI, in the US + UK, with more countries to come. This is an early experiment and I'm excited to see it develop in the weeks and months to come.
We're expanding access to Bard in US + UK with more countries ahead, it's an early experiment that lets you collaborate with generative AI. Hope Bard sparks more creativity and curiosity, and will get better with feedback. Sign up: bard.google.com
blog.google/technology/ai/tr…
Big announcement about new AI features and tools for @GoogleWorkspace users and devs. Congrats to @ThomasOrTK, @JeffDean, @theREALmarvin, @awagonfeld and many others on this important step
We’re bringing the power of generative AI to more people, developers and businesses, helping you create and collaborate in @GoogleWorkspace, build with Google’s best AI models in @GoogleCloud, and more. goo.gle/400I2Qc
Applications for the #GoogleOrgImpactChallenge are open in Sweden. On top of funding, we're offering full-time pro bono support via the @Googleorg Fellows. Please share with innovators and sustainability enthusiasts in your network!
We're excited to announce the launch of #GoogleOrgImpactChallenge: Tech for Social Good in Sweden. 🚀 🇸🇪
Apply for technical help & funding for charitable projects particularly focused on climate and sustainability. 🌳
→bit.ly/boosting-sustainable-…
