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Chair, Google DeepMind; Chief Scientist, Alphabet
Demis Hassabis is chair and co-founder of Google DeepMind and chief scientist of Alphabet. He handed over day-to-day leadership of Google DeepMind in 2026 while continuing to lead Isomorphic Labs. His career connects artificial intelligence, neuroscience and scientific discovery. He co-founded DeepMind in 2010, completed a neuroscience doctorate at UCL, and shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein-structure prediction through AlphaFold.
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Demis Hassabis is chair and co-founder of Google DeepMind and chief scientist of Alphabet. He handed over day-to-day leadership of Google DeepMind in 2026 while continuing to lead Isomorphic Labs. His career connects artificial intelligence, neuroscience and scientific discovery. He co-founded DeepMind in 2010, completed a neuroscience doctorate at UCL, and shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein-structure prediction through AlphaFold.
- DeepMind founding
- 2010 ↗
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- 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ↗
- Known for
- DeepMind; AlphaGo; AlphaFold ↗
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Becomes DeepMind chair and Alphabet chief scientist
Hassabis hands over day-to-day Google DeepMind leadership to Koray Kavukcuoglu, becoming its chair and Alphabet’s chief scientist while continuing to lead Isomorphic Labs.
Source: Google ↗Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Hassabis and John Jumper are recognised for protein-structure prediction through AlphaFold. David Baker also receives the chemistry prize for computational protein design.
Source: Google DeepMind ↗Leads Google DeepMind
Google brings DeepMind and Google Brain together as Google DeepMind. Hassabis leads the combined organisation as it expands work on advanced AI systems.
Source: Google DeepMind ↗AlphaFold advances protein prediction
DeepMind reports AlphaFold’s results at CASP14, where organisers recognise a major advance in predicting protein structures using AI and the system’s computational methods.
Source: Google DeepMind ↗AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol
DeepMind’s AlphaGo wins its match against Lee Sedol by four games to one in Seoul, demonstrating advances in search and neural network methods.
Source: Google DeepMind ↗Co-founds DeepMind
Hassabis co-founds DeepMind in London. The lab develops an interdisciplinary approach combining machine learning, neuroscience and other fields to pursue general artificial intelligence.
Source: Google DeepMind ↗Completes a neuroscience PhD
Hassabis completes a doctorate in cognitive neuroscience at UCL’s Institute of Neurology, before continuing as a postdoctoral researcher and later establishing DeepMind.
Source: UCL ↗
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