The Guardian: Google DeepMind enters a new era as co-founder Demis Hassabis shifts AI role
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Demis Hassabis
Sir Demis Hassabis is a British artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. He is the chairman and co-founder of Google DeepMind and the chief scientist of Alphabet, as well as the chief executive officer and co-founder of Isomorphic Labs. Hassabis is also a UK Government AI Adviser. In 2024, Hassabis and John M. Jumper were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their AI r…
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Born 27 July 1976 · Q3022141
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2026· 7 entries
Public attention spiked: 14,868 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.7× the usual 2,607, with 4 article edits. Coverage that week: “Inside Google DeepMind's Reshuffle After CEO Demis Hassabis Steps Aside” (TIME).
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TIME: Inside Google DeepMind's Reshuffle After CEO Demis Hassabis Steps Aside
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Gizmodo: Demis Hassabis Had Reportedly Been Plotting to Leave His DeepMind CEO Job for a Year
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Public attention spiked: 7,889 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3× the usual 2,607, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: Personal life clarification
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A book-length biography by Sebastian Mallaby was published, The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence
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In 2026, a book-length biography by Sebastian Mallaby was published, The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence.
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2025· 2 entries
Awarded Time 100 (2025).
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Awarded Knight Bachelor (2025).
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2024· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for protein structure prediction.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry presented by Nobel Foundation (2024).
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Published “Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3” in Nature — cited 15,571 times.
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2023· 5 entries
Awarded Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2023).
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Won Lovelace Medal (2023).
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Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (2023).
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Awarded Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2023).
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Signed the statement that "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war"
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2022· 2 entries
Awarded BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2022).
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Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research (2022).
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2021· 5 entries
Published “Protein complex prediction with AlphaFold-Multimer” — cited 3,348 times.
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2022, 2024, and 2026) and one Science front cover article (2017)
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Published “Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold” in Nature — cited 43,922 times.
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Published “AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 7,904 times.
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Published “Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome” in Nature — cited 3,005 times.
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2020· 3 entries
Awarded Dan David Prize (2020).
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Published “Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning” in Nature — cited 3,106 times.
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Published “International evaluation of an AI system for breast cancer screening” in Nature — cited 2,717 times.
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2018· 4 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (2018).
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Awarded honorary degree presented by Imperial College London (2018).
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Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2018).
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Published “A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go through self-play” in Science — cited 2,643 times.
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2017· 5 entries
Awarded Time 100 (2017).
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2017).
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And 2025, and was one of the "Architects of AI" collectively chosen as Time's 2025 Person of the Year
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Published “Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge” in Nature — cited 6,790 times.
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Published “Overcoming catastrophic forgetting in neural networks” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — cited 6,009 times.
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2016· 4 entries
Awarded Nature's 10 (2016).
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Published “Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search” in Nature — cited 11,447 times.
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Breakthrough of the Year (Top 10) – for AlphaGo
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DeepMind turned its artificial intelligence to protein structure prediction, a 50-year grand challenge in science, to predict the 3D structure of a protein from its 1D amino acid sequence
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2015· 1 entry
Published “Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning” in Nature — cited 23,885 times.
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2014· 2 entries
Awarded Mullard Award (2014).
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Google purchased DeepMind for £400 million
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1998· 1 entry
To found Elixir Studios, a London-based independent games developer, signing publishing deals with Eidos Interactive, Vivendi Universal and Microsoft
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1984· 1 entry
A ZX Spectrum 48K, funded from chess winnings
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1976· 1 entry
Born 1976-07-27.
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