Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google Deepmind, has expanded public approval to its chip engineers, highlighting the “overwhelming” demand for Google’s new AI models, Gemini 2.5 and Veo 3. His comments also appear to include a subtle jab from Openai CEO Sam Altman, who said Google CEO Sundar Pichai responded with a simple emoji.Hassabis has used X (formerly Twitter) to announce the “chart-off” demand for Google’s video generation AI, Veo 3. “Demand for VEO 3 is off the charts! Millions of videos have been generated in the last few days alone, and is now available on mobile and more countries (including the UK! 🇬🇧). Try it out with the Gemini app,” he pointed out.
Google Deepmind CEO shouts to engineers to make chips work
Amid this reported surge in usage, Hassavis specifically recognized the team behind Google’s infrastructure. “In the midst of the massive demand for Gemini 2.5 and VEO 3 models, we wanted to make a big cry to the world-class infrastructure, chips and SRE teams. This would not be possible without the incredible work that the chips and SRE teams work tirelessly to keep their amazing TPUs from melting,” Hasavis said. This approval from the hardware and infrastructure team appears to be a subtle criticism aimed at Openai’s Sam Altman, previously announced in the Ghibli style trend. “It’s so much fun to see people love images on ChatGpt.But our GPU is melting.We will introduce some rate limits temporarily while working to make it more efficient. Hopefully it won’t last long!ChatGpt Free Tier will soon be three generations a day. ”Google CEO Sundar Pichai acknowledged his emojis in Hassavis’s post, recognising his emotions.
