Demis Hassabis | Founders File

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Nobel Prize for Chemistry

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Knighthood for Services to Artificial Intelligence

Life Story

Born & Raised

Demis was born in North London to immigrant parents and grew up in a close-knit family where early interests in games and learning began to take shape.

Born & Raised

Demis was born in North London to immigrant parents and grew up in a close-knit family where early interests in games and learning began to take shape.

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"I've been playing games and fascinated by games since I can remember, starting with chess, which I learned to play when I was four years old."

Ted Interview, 28th July 2022

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Demis Hassabis audience with Pope Francis

Demis Hassabis accepting Breakthrough Prize

Demis Hassabis honorary first chess move at WCC

Demis Hassabis and John Jumper at Breakthrough Prize

Press

The Times of India

After NVIDIA's Jensen Huang, Google AI CEO Demis Hassabis too agrees..

18th June 2025

The Economic Times

Google AI chief Demis Hassabis wants AI to kill email once and for all

8th June 2025

Fortune

Top Google exec says AI will rival humans in just 5 years and predicts

6th June 2025

WIRED

Demis Hassabis Embraces the Future of Work in the Age of AI

4th June 2025

Queens College Cambridge

Sir Demis Hassabis named in the Time100 Most Influential list

17th April 2025

PR News Wire

Isomorphic Labs announces $600 million funding to further develop its

31st March 2025

BBC

Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis shares Nobel Chemistry Prize

9th October 2024

Deepmind

AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of molecules

8th May 2024

University of Oxford

DeepMind CEO to give lecture on AI's potential for scientific discover

4th May 2022

Media

Career Milestones

CEO and Founder

Isomorphic Labs

A company focused on using AI for drug discovery, established under Alphabet Inc. as a spin-off from DeepMind.

2021 – Present

Co-founder and CEO

DeepMind (now Google DeepMind)

A leading artificial intelligence research laboratory, acquired by Google in 2014 and merged with Google Brain in 2023.

2010 – Present

Postdoctoral Fellow

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

A private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, established in 1861. It has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and science.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Harvard University

A private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States

2009 – 2010

PhD Student

University College London (UCL)

A leading multi-disciplinary university in London, United Kingdom, consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world.

2005 – 2009

Founder & CEO

Elixir Studios

A UK-based independent games development company founded on 7 July 1998 by Demis Hassabis

1998 – 2005

Lead AI Programmer

Lionhead Studios

A British video game developer founded in July 1997 by Peter Molyneux, Mark Webley, Tim Rance, and Steve Jackson. It started as a breakaway from Bullfrog Productions

1997 – 1998

Designer, Lead Programmer