Nobel Laureate | Co-Founder & Chair, Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist, Alphabet | Founder & CEO, Isomorphic Labs
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Co-Founder & Chair of Google DeepMind, Chief Scientist of Alphabet, and Founder & CEO of Isomorphic Labs - working on AGI, responsible for AI breakthroughs such as AlphaGo, the first program to beat the world champion at the game of Go; and AlphaFold, which cracked the 50-year grand challenge of protein structure prediction and was recognised with the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Revolutionising drug discovery at Isomorphic Labs. Ultimately trying to understand the fundamental nature of reality.
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A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age
A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age
This is a pivotal moment in human history. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), a system that exhibits all the…
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Demis Hassabis shared thisI’ve been working towards AGI my whole life and I believe it is now close at hand. It’s critical that as a society we get the next steps right to ensure this profound technology benefits all of humanity and ushers in an incredible new age of discovery and wonder. As we enter this pivotal moment, I’ve decided to step into a new role as Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet Inc. This will allow me to focus on long-term AGI strategy and accelerating scientific breakthroughs, including leaning even further into my work at Isomorphic Labs where we are making extremely rapid and promising progress on our mission to cure disease. We’ve achieved so many extraordinary things at Google DeepMind so far and I’m very excited for this next chapter under the leadership of koray kavukcuoglu. I look forward to continuing to work with him, Sundar and the executive team. More details in our blog post: https://lnkd.in/eEdesa-X
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Demis Hassabis shared thisI've been talking extensively with many technical experts and policymakers about ways to establish international AI standards. Today, I'm sharing my thoughts on the moment we’re in and a concrete solution that I think could be a good starting point for frontier AI governance.A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New AgeA Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age
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Demis Hassabis reposted thisDemis Hassabis reposted thisDemis on science and discovery… I recently had the privilege of putting together and editing another special volume of Daedalus (the American Academy of Arts & Sciences’s journal) on the future of scientific discovery in the age of AI-published May 2026. One of the reasons I was excited about this AI & Science volume is that AI’s potential to advance science and discovery is a major motivation for many working at the frontier of AI – including the 33 scientists who contribute to the volume. (The volume is freely available here: https://lnkd.in/gwhDPZ2Q) The volume also features a conversation I had at the end of 2025 with my friend and colleague Demis Hassabis, himself a pioneering scientist and Nobel Prize winner and someone who has thought deeply about AI & Science for a very long time, all the way back to when he was a kid. Demis’ mind is always a fascinating place to enter. In our conversation here he talks about AI as the ultimate tool for science and discovery, why root-node problems are important in science, the big questions about the nature of reality, the problems he would like AI to help us tackle and that would progress humanity, and the three things that make a problem a good challenge for AI-enabled science, ... and also Turing machines, AGI and the potential for humanity and much more. You can read our full conversation here: https://lnkd.in/e2SeJp_MAI as the Ultimate Tool for Science: A Conversation with Demis HassabisAI as the Ultimate Tool for Science: A Conversation with Demis Hassabis
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Demis Hassabis shared thisIt was great to be at I/O again this year to share our latest models and capabilities on the path to artificial general intelligence (AGI). The staggering pace of AI progress is incredible, even for those of us who have spent our entire lives working on this technology. A few highlights from our key announcements: - Gemini Omni Flash: A major leap in world understanding and multimodal editing, Omni can take photos, video and audio, and create videos with entirely new cohesive scenes. Over time, Omni will be able to generate any output from any input. - Gemini 3.5 Flash: Our most capable Flash model yet, it outperforms Gemini 3.1 Pro on coding and agentic tasks while being 4x faster than other frontier models - and 12x faster in Antigravity. - Gemini for Science: A collection of experimental AI tools to help researchers streamline daily scientific tasks, like staying on top of newly published papers or generating and evaluating new hypotheses. - CodeMender: Built on Gemini, our code security agent automatically finds and fixes critical software vulnerabilities. It’s now being tested by experts using our new API and we’ll be launching it more broadly soon. - SynthID: OpenAI, Kakao Corp, and ElevenLabs are joining NVIDIA in adopting our imperceptible SynthID watermark for tagging and identifying AI-generated content. We’re looking forward to expanding to more partners and setting the standard of transparency for the AI era. Agents and world understanding will be crucial aspects of achieving AGI. As we advance towards this, it’s important that we are clear-eyed about the potential challenges and use all the tools at our disposal to ensure the safety of our agentic systems, and ultimately AGI itself. When we look back at this time, I think we will realise that we were standing in the foothills of the singularity. Built right and deployed responsibly, AGI will be a force multiplier for human ingenuity, and could unlock scientific progress and human flourishing beyond our current imagination.
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Demis Hassabis shared thisI’ve always believed the No.1 application of AI should be to improve human health. That work started with AlphaFold, and continues at Isomorphic Labs with our mission to reimagine drug discovery and one day solve all disease. We are turbocharging our progress with $2.1B in new funding. Excited for what’s to come!
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Demis Hassabis shared thisIt was wonderful to be back in Korea last week, 10 years after AlphaGo’s historic win against the legendary 9-dan champion Lee Sae Dol. That groundbreaking moment gave the world a first glimpse of what we could achieve with AI that can learn to solve hard problems. We’ve seen incredible progress in AI since then. Today, AI is capable of advanced reasoning and is beginning to have agentic capabilities that will enable it to plan and act in the world, whether in robotics or as useful assistants. We’re now at a major threshold with AGI likely to arrive in 3-4 years and bring profound change to industries and society. Korea is uniquely positioned for this transformation. It has one of the world’s fastest-growing AI adoption rates - many of Korea’s citizens rely on the Gemini app as an essential daily partner. It’s also a world leader in manufacturing memory chips and advanced semiconductors that are the bedrock of AI compute. At the same time, Korea’s leaders have been deeply thoughtful about the critical questions we as a society have to answer as we navigate this next transformative period of human history. It was a huge honour to meet President Lee Jae-myung and discuss AI safety and the importance of using AI to advance science. I’ve always believed that scientific discovery is the ultimate use case for AI, and Korea’s strengths in robotics, biotech, energy and education - along with its world-class talent - make it a natural partner for accelerating this work. We’re building on a strong foundation of collaborations with world-leading Korean companies and universities, and establishing a new partnership with The Ministry of Science and ICT of the Republic of Korea. We’ll help to accelerate the country’s K-Moonshot mission by leveraging our models in fields such as life sciences, energy, weather and climate. We’ll also be collaborating with the Korean AI Safety Institute on research and are supporting the next generation of talent by providing internship opportunities at Google DeepMind for Korean students. We have a long-standing connection with Korea as the home of the AlphaGo match that kickstarted the modern AI era. Returning to Seoul offered the chance to connect with Lee Sae Dol again and join Shin Jin-seo for a special Go match. It was incredibly interesting to hear how AlphaGo has changed the way players approach the game. I also got to visit Google Korea and spend some time with the amazing team there. The launch of our AI Campus within our Seoul office will help to drive collaborations between Korean institutions and our AI experts that are at the center of our work together. Thank you to everyone in Korea for such a warm welcome. Excited to see where this new chapter of collaboration leads us! Read more about our new partnership: https://lnkd.in/eaReHrVK
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Demis Hassabis posted thisWe started DeepMind back in 2010 because even then we believed Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) would be the most transformative technology ever invented. It has the potential to be the ultimate tool to accelerate science and medicine, and improve productivity. The impact will be profound, but the challenges and complexities are also enormous. Thoughtfulness and foresight will be critical as we seek to steward this technology safely into the world to benefit everyone. As part of our contribution to that effort, I’m thrilled to welcome Jasjeet Sekhon to Google DeepMind as Chief Strategy Officer to partner with me on strategy cutting across research, commercialisation, policy and more. Jas is uniquely experienced for this role, having served as Chief Scientist and Head of AI at Bridgewater Associates, where he now joins the board. Super excited to be working with Jas to accelerate this important work at such a critical time for this technology.
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Demis Hassabis shared thisTen years ago, AlphaGo’s legendary match in Seoul heralded the start of what is now recognised as the modern era in AI. In 2016, with over 200 million people watching, our AI system AlphaGo faced world champion Go player Lee Sae Dol. The match was defined by AlphaGo’s famous ‘Move 37’ in Game 2 - a play so unconventional it first appeared to be a mistake. But as the game unfolded, it became clear the play wasn’t just bold, it was decisive. One hundred or so moves later, Move 37 was in exactly the right place to decide the battle and allow AlphaGo to win the game. I knew at that moment that the AI techniques we developed with AlphaGo were ready to be applied to our real goal of using AI to accelerate scientific breakthroughs. The trajectory since then has been incredible: • 𝗔𝗹𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗭𝗲𝗿𝗼: Taught itself from scratch to master any 2-player perfect information game, including Go, chess and shogi. • 𝗔𝗹𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗱: Solved the 50-year grand challenge of protein structure prediction and is now a standard tool for millions of scientists around the world. • 𝗔𝗹𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗳 & 𝗔𝗹𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗘𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲: Applying AlphaGo’s ‘reasoning as search’ to formal mathematics and algorithm discovery. • 𝗚𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶: In Deep Think mode, our most capable model uses search and planning algorithms to explore lines of thought in parallel - an approach inspired by AlphaGo. Our goal is to build artificial general intelligence (AGI) that can help us make fundamental leaps in science and address some of the most pressing problems facing humanity, including energy and disease. The techniques we pioneered in AlphaGo are now paving the path towards AGI. Gemini uses some of the same search and planning approaches to reason across language, audio, video and images to build a model of how the world works. We think the combination of Gemini’s world model and AlphaGo’s techniques, as well as a system’s ability to call on specialised AI tools like AlphaFold, will prove to be critical for AGI. True creativity is a key capability that such an AGI system would need to exhibit. Move 37 was a glimpse of AI’s potential to think outside the box, but true original invention will require something more. It would need to not only come up with a novel Go strategy, as AlphaGo impressively did, but actually invent a game as deep and elegant, and as worthy of study as Go. AlphaGo has had an amazing impact over the past 10 years - look forward to seeing what it unlocks next!
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Demis Hassabis shared thisIt was amazing to be in India this week for the AI Impact Summit. Seeing firsthand how the country is applying AI to solve real-world problems, it is clear that India is poised to become an AI powerhouse on the global stage. My thanks to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and the Indian government for convening such an impressive and productive meeting. Since the first summit in the UK at Bletchley Park in 2023, presciently initiated by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, this gathering has become very important for continuing international dialogue and cooperation on the future of AI. Those discussions are especially urgent with AGI on the horizon, potentially within the next five years. In my view, AGI will be the most transformative technology ever invented and its impact will be unprecedented, maybe 10x that of the Industrial Revolution, unfolding 10x faster. I’ve always believed AI could be the ultimate tool to advance science, medicine, and productivity, and help tackle some of the biggest challenges facing humanity. To realise this massive potential, more scientists and entrepreneurs need to be able to use frontier AI capabilities. Building on our work with the US and UK, Google DeepMind announced new partnerships in India this week to broaden access to AI tools like AlphaGenome, WeatherNext and Gemini-powered learning assistants. India is already one of the top countries by users of the Gemini app. Our world-class team in Bengaluru is doing critical research on efficient models and multilingual capabilities that we are bringing to our products and technologies in order to broaden AI’s impact. It was incredibly impressive to see the energy and enthusiasm for AI in the country, especially among young people. While speaking at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), I met with students and faculty who had inspiring ideas for seizing the economic and scientific opportunities AI unlocks. This is an extremely exciting time but we must approach it with humility and care, as we don’t have all the answers yet about how this technology will develop and be deployed into the world. To navigate this next period in human history, we need more forums like the international summits to bring together all parts of society - including technologists, scientists and governments, but also artists, social scientists, philosophers and citizens. These dialogues are vital to realising AI’s benefits and mitigating any potential risks. If we get these next steps right, I’m very optimistic we can usher in a new golden age of scientific discovery and progress, and improve the lives of everyone, everywhere.
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Demis Hassabis liked thisDemis Hassabis liked thisAlways a bit surreal to see your face on a list like the #TIME100AI. Building technology this transformative is an extraordinary scientific feat - and making sure it serves people in the real world is an even bigger human effort. No one company or individual builds this future alone. Looking across this list, I see so many peers, mentors, friends & fellow travellers I admire, working to meet this AI moment with responsibility & care. If we get this right, AI could be the most beneficial technology we’ve ever seen. But it has to happen with people, not to them. Onwards! TIME https://lnkd.in/e4YyyGGf
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Demis Hassabis liked thisDemis Hassabis liked thisDemis on science and discovery… I recently had the privilege of putting together and editing another special volume of Daedalus (the American Academy of Arts & Sciences’s journal) on the future of scientific discovery in the age of AI-published May 2026. One of the reasons I was excited about this AI & Science volume is that AI’s potential to advance science and discovery is a major motivation for many working at the frontier of AI – including the 33 scientists who contribute to the volume. (The volume is freely available here: https://lnkd.in/gwhDPZ2Q) The volume also features a conversation I had at the end of 2025 with my friend and colleague Demis Hassabis, himself a pioneering scientist and Nobel Prize winner and someone who has thought deeply about AI & Science for a very long time, all the way back to when he was a kid. Demis’ mind is always a fascinating place to enter. In our conversation here he talks about AI as the ultimate tool for science and discovery, why root-node problems are important in science, the big questions about the nature of reality, the problems he would like AI to help us tackle and that would progress humanity, and the three things that make a problem a good challenge for AI-enabled science, ... and also Turing machines, AGI and the potential for humanity and much more. You can read our full conversation here: https://lnkd.in/e2SeJp_MAI as the Ultimate Tool for Science: A Conversation with Demis HassabisAI as the Ultimate Tool for Science: A Conversation with Demis Hassabis
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Demis Hassabis liked thisDemis Hassabis liked thisAfter a 40-year career in HR—and over five truly incredible years at Google —I have decided to retire at the end of Q2. My family all lives in Europe, and as my mum gets older, I want to prioritize spending quality time with them. While I’m sharing this news externally today, this transition has been thoughtfully underway for several months. I recently first shared my plans internally at Google and with my People Operations organization back in March, and will be staying on for a short period to support the team’s transition. The company expects to name a new Chief People Officer sometime later this year. When I look back over the last four decades, it is astonishing to see how much the HR profession has evolved. We've gone through periods where the function was heavily weighed down by process and administration, but today, we are on the cusp of something extraordinary. Watching AI begin to fundamentally reshape how we work fills me with so much hope and excitement for the future of HR. Is it finally going to strip away the process work and allow teams to do what they do best: focus entirely on the human element? I truly hope so. I’m so grateful to have worked with many amazing companies and my time at Google has undoubtedly been the highlight of my career. Leading this team and seeing the company transform through our hard work and change management has been the privilege of my life. Google is a remarkably special place, full of kind and brilliant people who are actively building the future and shaping the world as we lean into the age of AI. Professionally, it is difficult to step away when things are this exciting, but personal and professional timelines rarely align perfectly. I am so proud of what the People Operations team has built together to set the foundations for this success—supporting Google and Googlers to get ready for this new era. As I prepare to pass the baton, I want to send a massive, heartfelt thank you to my colleagues, mentors, friends and family who have made this journey what it was. I will be cheering you all on from the sidelines forever! 🥰
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