By Lakshmi Varanasi
Publication Date: 2025-12-07 22:47:00
There’s a debate rippling through Silicon Valley: How far can scaling laws take the technology?
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, whose company just released Gemini 3 to widespread acclaim, has made it clear where he stands on the issue.
“The scaling of the current systems, we must push that to the maximum, because at the minimum, it will be a key component of the final AGI system,” he said at the Axios’ AI+ Summit in San Francisco last week. “It could be the entirety of the AGI system.”
AGI, or artificial general intelligence, is a still theoretical version of AI that reasons as well as humans. It’s the goal all the leading AI companies are competing to reach, fueling huge amounts of spending on infrastructure and talent.
AI scaling laws suggest that the more data and compute an AI model is given, the smarter it will get.
Hassabis said that scaling alone will likely get the industry to AGI, but that he suspects there will need to be”one or two” other…