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Demis Hassabis          

Co-Founder & CEO at Google DeepMind

Sir Demis Hassabis is a British computer scientist, neuroscientist, videogame designer and entrepreneur. A chess and programming prodigy, Hassabis founded the pioneering AI research company DeepMind in 2010, now part of Alphabet, which continues to produce landmark breakthroughs like AlphaGo, the first program to beat the world champion at the game of Go, and AlphaFold, which solved the 50-year grand challenge of protein structure prediction by accurately predicting the 3D shape of proteins, critical for disease understanding and drug discovery. He is also the founder and CEO of Isomorphic Labs, a digital biology company, and a UK Government AI Advisor.

Hassabis is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and has won many prestigious awards for his work on AlphaFold including the Breakthrough Prize, the Canada Gairdner International Award, and the Lasker Award. In 2017, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and listed in TIME's 100 most influential people list. In 2024, he was awarded a knighthood for services to science and technology.

Hassabis received his BA from the University of Cambridge and his PhD from University College London.

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Google’s DeepMind Health aims to improve health care through technology
DeepMind, the London-based artificial intelligence outfit that Google acquired for around $500 million in 2014, has managed more than a few impressive feats of computer engineering. It’s built a system that can teach itself how to play 49 different Atari video games, and more recently designed the world’s first neural network capable of beating a human player at Go. But the team’s broader ambitions are more philanthropic in nature: on Wednesday, Google announced DeepMind Health, a program designed to aid health workers in identifying patients at risk of dangerous complications.

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