Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis is a British artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind in 2010. He served as CEO of DeepMind until 2026, when he became chief scientist of Alphabet. He is best known for leading the development of AlphaGo, the first program to defeat a world champion at the game of Go, and AlphaFold, which addressed the long-standing challenge of protein structure prediction. In 2024, he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for contributions to protein structure prediction.
“Isomorphic Labs... in talks to raise at $40-50B after about $10B from Thrive”
Source→“generational talent has generational prices in today... he's going to pull together a team like's never been seen since the dawn of mankind in artificial intelligence.”
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