Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis is a British artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur who serves as the co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind. He co-founded DeepMind in London in 2010, and the company was acquired by Google in 2014 in its largest European acquisition at the time. He is best known for leading the development of AlphaGo, which defeated world champion Lee Sedol at the game of Go in 2016, and AlphaFold, an AI system that solved the 50-year grand challenge of protein structure prediction. In 2024, he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to protein structure prediction.
“Demis, founder of DeepMind, led London AI efforts, visionary genius.”
Source→“Hassabis was CEO of Google DeepMind, while Kavukcuoglu is only being given the title of senior VP. Hassabis stepping into a chairman/chief scientist role at Alphabet.”
Source→“So funny when I interviewed Demis and I spoke about like bio and medicine it was an area where you just see his eyes light up.”
Source→“I think the Alexander Wang hire might end up being one of the most consequential talent acquisitions in tech history. Right up there with when Apple brought back Steve Jobs or when Google acquired DeepMind and kept Demis Hassabis at the helm.”
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