Demis Hassabis

CEO, Google DeepMind

Demis Hassabis co-founded DeepMind, ran it as chief executive until August 2026, and is now Alphabet's chief scientist and chair of Google DeepMind. He shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AI work on predicting protein structures.

Net worth: ~$1.3B (est.); Estimate
Company: 1

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Leading DeepMind from AlphaFold to AlphaGenome; Nobel laureate in Chemistry.

Worth knowing

He bought his first computer, a ZX Spectrum 48K, in 1984 with chess winnings and taught himself to program from books.
He turned down a seven-figure offer to stay in the games industry and went to Cambridge after Theme Park.
He shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John M. Jumper for AI research on protein structure prediction, and was knighted in 2024 for his work on AI.
He is a UK Government AI Adviser and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Based: London, UK
Primary role: Co- Founder, Google DeepMind
Born: 1976, London, England
Nationality: British

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DeepMind's new essay argues solo benchmarks measure the wrong thing and that human wages will anchor to the cost of compute. The same week Alphabet posted negative free cash flow, launched a number-one benchmark model developers cannot buy, and Anthropic headed toward a mid-November IPO.

October 30, 2026 · 4 min read

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Google is building humanoid robots, hiring Boston Dynamics' ex-CTO for a 35,000-square-foot Massachusetts lab

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Subscribers call Anthropic's caution a cartel weeks before a $2 trillion listing

Alphabet plans up to $205B to speed up AI the same month it was sued for slowing down

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