A conversation with Nobel Laureate Sir Demis Hassabis and writer Sebastian Mallaby, author of The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence.
Sir Demis Hassabis is an artificial intelligence researcher, entrepreneur, and Nobel Laureate. Demis is the co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind. DeepMind, one of the world's leading AI companies, was founded in 2010 and acquired by Google in January 2014, and is now central to Google's AI efforts. DeepMind has achieved numerous landmark AI breakthroughs such as 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. Demis has won many prestigious international awards for his research work including the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction. His work has been cited over 200,000 times, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2024, Demis was awarded a knighthood for services to Artificial Intelligence, and in both 2017 and 2025 Demis featured in the Time 100 list of most influential people.
Sebastian Mallaby is the author of several books, including the bestselling More Money Than God, and The Power Law, a history of venture capital and its role in building Silicon Valley. For his latest work, The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence, Mallaby spent more than thirty hours in conversation with Sir Demis and conducted hundreds of hours of interviews with AI scientists and leaders, inside and outside DeepMind. A former Financial Times contributing editor and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Sir Demis Hassabis is an artificial intelligence researcher, entrepreneur, and Nobel Laureate. Demis is the co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind. DeepMind, one of the world's leading AI companies, was founded in 2010 and acquired by Google in January 2014, and is now central to Google's AI efforts. DeepMind has achieved numerous landmark AI breakthroughs such as 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. Demis has won many prestigious international awards for his research work including the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction. His work has been cited over 200,000 times, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2024, Demis was awarded a knighthood for services to Artificial Intelligence, and in both 2017 and 2025 Demis featured in the Time 100 list of most influential people.
Sebastian Mallaby is the author of several books, including the bestselling More Money Than God, and The Power Law, a history of venture capital and its role in building Silicon Valley. For his latest work, The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence, Mallaby spent more than thirty hours in conversation with Sir Demis and conducted hundreds of hours of interviews with AI scientists and leaders, inside and outside DeepMind. A former Financial Times contributing editor and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.
A conversation with Nobel Laureate Sir Demis Hassabis and writer Sebastian Mallaby, author of The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence.
Sir Demis Hassabis is an artificial intelligence researcher, entrepreneur, and Nobel Laureate. Demis is the co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind. DeepMind, one of the world's leading AI companies, was founded in 2010 and acquired by Google in January 2014, and is now central to Google's AI efforts. DeepMind has achieved numerous landmark AI breakthroughs such as 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. Demis has won many prestigious international awards for his research work including the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction. His work has been cited over 200,000 times, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2024, Demis was awarded a knighthood for services to Artificial Intelligence, and in both 2017 and 2025 Demis featured in the Time 100 list of most influential people.
Sebastian Mallaby is the author of several books, including the bestselling More Money Than God, and The Power Law, a history of venture capital and its role in building Silicon Valley. For his latest work, The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence, Mallaby spent more than thirty hours in conversation with Sir Demis and conducted hundreds of hours of interviews with AI scientists and leaders, inside and outside DeepMind. A former Financial Times contributing editor and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Sir Demis Hassabis is an artificial intelligence researcher, entrepreneur, and Nobel Laureate. Demis is the co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind. DeepMind, one of the world's leading AI companies, was founded in 2010 and acquired by Google in January 2014, and is now central to Google's AI efforts. DeepMind has achieved numerous landmark AI breakthroughs such as 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. Demis has won many prestigious international awards for his research work including the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction. His work has been cited over 200,000 times, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2024, Demis was awarded a knighthood for services to Artificial Intelligence, and in both 2017 and 2025 Demis featured in the Time 100 list of most influential people.
Sebastian Mallaby is the author of several books, including the bestselling More Money Than God, and The Power Law, a history of venture capital and its role in building Silicon Valley. For his latest work, The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence, Mallaby spent more than thirty hours in conversation with Sir Demis and conducted hundreds of hours of interviews with AI scientists and leaders, inside and outside DeepMind. A former Financial Times contributing editor and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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