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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