Demis Hassabis speaks at SXSW London 2025 on AI frontiers panel. (Getty Images) Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind and recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has followed an extraordinary path marked by academic brilliance, scientific curiosity, and technological innovation. From mastering chess at the age of four to leading one of the…
Over the last 12 months, Google’s efforts to use artificial intelligence to accelerate drug design have achieved breakthroughs in mimicking human biology and won its top scientists the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Now Isomorphic Labs, the division within the software giant meant to develop and commercialize the technology, is taking another big step: raising money…
World leaders, tech moguls and assorted hangers-on (including yours truly) are gathered in Paris this week for the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit, a conference co-hosted by Emmanuel Macron, the French president, and Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, to discuss a host of A.I.-related issues. The leaders of three American A.I. companies — Sam Altman of…