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Demis Hassabis

Chair of Google DeepMind; Chief Scientist of Alphabet; CEO of Isomorphic Labs · as of 2026-10-04 · source

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DeepMind co-founder (AlphaGo, AlphaFold, Gemini) and 2024 Chemistry Nobel laureate; stepped aside as DeepMind CEO in August 2026 to become chair and Alphabet chief scientist.

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  1. Kevin Roose's 'The AGI Chronicles' excerpt in The Atlantic: the Altman–Amodei feud and a 2017 Brockman/Sutskever plan to auction OpenAI's AGI to countries ★★★

    On Sept 30, 2026 The Atlantic published an excerpt from Kevin Roose's book "The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, on sale Oct 6, 2026). The excerpt covers the OpenAI–Anthropic rivalry and the personal feud between…

  2. Google, OpenAI and Anthropic plan an industry safety standards body, the 'Standards Authority for Frontier AI', without government oversight ★★★

    The Information reported on Sept 24, 2026 that Google, OpenAI and Anthropic plan to launch an independent industry body, tentatively the Standards Authority for Frontier AI (SAFA), in late 2026 or 2027. It would set safety standards, incident-reporting guidelines and auditor qualifications without…

  3. Subscribers sue Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google, calling the 'pace the frontier' agreement an illegal antitrust conspiracy ★★★

    On Friday Sept 18, 2026 four paid chatbot subscribers filed a proposed nationwide class action in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act when their leaders publicly agreed to Dario…

  4. Google DeepMind launches the DeepMind Institute to broaden the AGI debate; Hassabis proposes a frontier-AI standards body ★★★

    On 17 Sept 2026 Google and Google DeepMind launched the DeepMind Institute (led by Shane Legg, James Manyika and Demis Hassabis) with four essays on AGI economics, keeping model reasoning human-readable, human flourishing and frontier-model evaluation. Hassabis proposed a US-led standards body…

  5. Von der Leyen's State of the Union backs 'pacing the frontier' of AI and offers EU support to the labs ★★★

    In her State of the Union address on Sept 16, 2026, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen endorsed slowing frontier AI: "CEOs of the most advanced companies tell us that it is time to slow down on the self-recursive models. To pace the frontier. If the people developing the technology…

  6. Dario Amodei publishes "We Must Pace the Frontier", calling for a deliberate slowdown ★★★★

    On September 12, 2026 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published 'We Must Pace the Frontier'. The essay argues that AI capability, especially through recursive self-improvement, is outpacing alignment and security, and lays out a three-part plan to slow the frontier. Anthropic unilaterally committed to…

  7. Dario Amodei and Gavin Baker debate AI regulation on X; David Sacks says Amodei wants a "DMV for AI" ★★

    On 2026-08-15 Dario Amodei posted a rare long reply on X to investor Gavin Baker, who had argued that Amodei's warnings fed the US backlash against AI and data centers and that "Dario has lost the argument". Amodei called "concentrate via regulation vs. distribute widely" a false choice and backed…

  8. Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le leave Google to found Discovery Loop, a PBC to automate ML research and science ★★★★

    On 5 Aug 2026 Google's chief scientist Jeff Dean left after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop (@DiscoLoopAI), a public benefit corporation with Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le. It aims to "automate the experimental loop" (propose, run, evaluate and iterate on experiments), starting…

  9. Demis Hassabis steps aside as Google DeepMind CEO; Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over, Jeff Dean leaves ★★★★

    In early August 2026 Demis Hassabis handed day-to-day control of Google DeepMind to CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu (as SVP reporting to Sundar Pichai), becoming DeepMind chair and Alphabet chief scientist while continuing to lead Isomorphic Labs. Pichai's memo also announced Jeff Dean's departure to found…

  10. FT: Google DeepMind has broken up its Nobel-winning AlphaFold team; Jumper, Adler and Pritzel now at Anthropic ★★★

    The Financial Times reported on 29 July 2026 that Google DeepMind had quietly dissolved the dedicated AlphaFold team, reassigning most of the original AlphaFold authors to Gemini and other projects. Nobel laureate John Jumper had announced on 19 June 2026 that he was leaving for Anthropic, and…

  11. Demis Hassabis proposes a US-led, FINRA-style Frontier AI Standards Body in essay "A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age" ★★★★

    On 14 July 2026 Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis published an X Article saying AGI is "probably only a few short years away". He proposed a US-led, industry-funded Frontier AI Standards Body, modelled on FINRA, to which frontier labs would voluntarily submit models up to 30 days before release…

  12. Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1B Series B; first human trials of its AI-designed drugs slip to end-2026 ★★★

    On 12 May 2026 Alphabet's DeepMind spin-off Isomorphic Labs announced a $2.1B Series B led by Thrive Capital. The money is for its IsoDDE drug-design engine and its in-house pipeline. Earlier, at Davos in January 2026, Demis Hassabis had moved the target for first clinical trials of…

  13. Isomorphic Labs unveils IsoDDE drug-discovery engine, hailed as 'an AlphaFold 4' — but proprietary ★★★

    On 10 Feb 2026 DeepMind spin-off Isomorphic Labs released a 27-page technical report on IsoDDE, a proprietary drug-discovery engine that outperforms AlphaFold 3-era tools and Boltz-2 on protein–ligand binding, affinity and antibody-structure prediction; outside scientists called it "on the scale…

  14. OpenAI researchers claim GPT-5 'solved' 10 Erdős problems; the solutions were already in the literature ★★★

    In mid-October 2025 OpenAI's Kevin Weil tweeted that GPT-5 'found solutions to 10 (!) previously unsolved Erdős problems'. Thomas Bloom, who runs erdosproblems.com, called this 'a dramatic misrepresentation': GPT-5 had found existing papers solving problems listed as open only because he did not…

  15. Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein design and AlphaFold ★★★★★

    The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded half to David Baker for computational protein design and half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper of Google DeepMind for protein structure prediction with AlphaFold.

  16. Leading AI scientists sign the one-sentence statement on AI extinction risk ★★★★

    Hundreds of AI researchers and executives, including Hinton, Bengio, Altman, Hassabis and Amodei, signed: 'Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.'

  17. AlphaFold 2 solves protein structure prediction at CASP14 ★★★★★

    AlphaFold 2 achieved a median GDT score of 92.4 at CASP14, accuracy competitive with experimental methods, widely seen as solving the 50-year-old protein folding problem for single chains.

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