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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
6 Oct 2025 Acquired Google Part III: The AI Company
“There’s an independent oversight board that is set up to make sure that the mission and goals of DeepMind are actually being followed. This is an asset that Google owns today that again, I think is worth half a trillion dollars if it’s independent.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 6 Oct 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Google Part III: The AI Company
Transcript context
…That is amazing. So they fly to London, they do the diligence, they make the deal. Demis has true kinship with Larry, and it’s done. $550 million US dollars. There’s an independent oversight board that is set up to make sure that the mission and goals of DeepMind are actually being followed. This is an asset that Google owns today that again, I think is worth half a trillion dollars if it’s independent. Do you know what other member of the PayPal Mafia gets put on the ethics board after the acquisition?…
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