EP259 Why DeepMind Built a Security LLM Sec-Gemini and How It Beats the Generalists

Guest: Elie Burstein , Distinguished Scientist, Google Deepmind Topics: What is Sec-Gemini, why are we building it? How does DeepMind decide when to create something like Sec-Gemini? What motivates a decision to focus on something like this vs anything else we might build as a dedicated set of regular Gemini capabilities? What is Sec-Gemini good at? How do we know it's good at those things? Where and how is it better than a general LLM? Are we using Sec-Gemini internally? Resources: Video version EP238 Google Lessons for Using AI Agents for Securing Our Enterprise EP255 Separating Hype from Hazard: The Truth About Autonomous AI Hacking EP168 Beyond Regular LLMs: How SecLM Enhances Security and What Teams Can Do With It EP171 GenAI in the Wrong Hands: Unmasking the Threat of Malicious AI and Defending Against the Dark Side Big Sleep , CodeMender blogs

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EP259 Why DeepMind Built a Security LLM Sec-Gemini and How It Beats the Generalists is an episode from Cloud Security Podcast by Google by Anton Chuvakin.

This episode is 33:36 long.

This episode was published on Jan 19, 2026.

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