Mark Zuckerberg wanted to buy DeepMind, but its CEO used him to get a better deal from Google

Mark Zuckerberg plans to buy DeepMind changed when its CEO used him to get a better deal from Google.

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00:00So we kind of started the the AI thing um with Fair. I did I did want to buy DeepMind but they

00:06went to Google. Demis was good by the way he he totally did a very good job of playing me off of

00:11Google to get a good price which which I respect and empowered him. So we kind of did it ourselves

00:16and I I guess because we didn't end up having this closed lab um we ended up getting all these

00:21academic folks and that sort of laid the foundation for like the the kind of philosophical approach

00:27being like overwhelmingly open source in the work.