Koray Kavukcuoglu: “This Is How We Are Going to Build AGI”

In this episode of Release Notes, Logan Kilpatrick interviews Koray Kavukcuoglu, CTO of DeepMind and Chief AI Architect of Google, about Gemini 3. They discuss the positive reception of the model, its capabilities, and the importance of real-world applications and user feedback in driving AI development. Kavukcuoglu emphasizes the significance of instruction following, internationalization, function calls, tool calls, and coding in enhancing the model's utility. They also touch on the collaborative effort across Google in developing and deploying Gemini models, the balance between scientific exploration and scaling efforts, and the engineering mindset applied to AI development, including safety and security. The conversation further explores the evolution of image models, the convergence of different technologies, and the future of AI in building intelligence and enabling users to bring their ideas to life.