In this episode, we sit down with Prateek Jain (Principal Scientist & Director at Google DeepMind) for an unfiltered deep dive into:
How AI research has evolved from handcrafted features → deep learning → transformers → generative
Why safety and efficiency matter just as much as scale
India’s once-in-a-generation chance to lead in deep AI research
The founder’s playbook: building sustainable AI-first companies
The next big bottlenecks — and opportunities — in this space
This is more than a conversation. It’s a blueprint for the future of AI. 🚀
📌 Episode Timestamps
00:00 – Introduction
03:00 – How Prateek stumbled into AI research in college
07:00 – The AlexNet moment and why it mattered
14:30 – GPUs, TPUs & scaling AI
16:20 – The ChatGPT moment & mass adoption
21:40 – Long reinforcement learning: the biggest surprise
24:00 – Bottlenecks in AI: data, efficiency, alignment
26:49 – India’s deep AI research challenge
50:44 – Founder advice for building with AI
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