Demis Hassabis
Founder of DeepMind
AlphaGo, AlphaFold, and a Nobel Prize
Rating
96Impact score
Domains
Reinforcement learningScientific AINeuroscience
Scouting report
Chess prodigy, then games developer, then neuroscientist, then founder of DeepMind — the lab that produced DQN, AlphaGo, AlphaZero and AlphaFold. Shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the last of those. Has been consistent for two decades that the point of building intelligence is to use it on science.
Curator’s note
The rare lab founder who kept doing the research himself.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Demis Hassabis by John Sears, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sources
- 01Demis Hassabis en.wikipedia.org
- 02Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 nobelprize.org