EP259 Why DeepMind Built a Security LLM Sec-Gemini and How It Beats the Generalists
EP259 Why DeepMind Built a Security LLM Sec-Gemini and How It Beats the Generalists  
Podcast: Cloud Security Podcast by Google
Published On: Mon Jan 19 2026
Description: 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