Google DeepMind CEO says his passion for chess led to his career in AI
Demis Hassabis, a childhood chess prodigy, said his experience with the game afforded him his first brush with AI. He was ...
How a Love of Chess Led the CEO of Google's DeepMind to a Career in AI — and a Nobel Prize
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis's AI journey had an unexpected start: his early mastery of chess. Years before Hassabis ...
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New Scientist recommends DeepMind documentary The Thinking Game
It was a bold choice to host a preview screening of The Thinking Game, a documentary about AI company Google DeepMind and its ...
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The AI Hype Index: DeepSeek mania, Israel’s spying tool, and cheating at chess
MIT Technology Review’s highly subjective take on the latest buzz about AI. Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, ...
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Nobel laureate and Cambridge alumnus Sir Demis Hassabis heralds a new era of 'digital speed' drug discovery
Demis, who was last year jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Google DeepMind colleague Dr John Jumper for their ...
Google says its new ‘reasoning’ Gemini AI models are the best ones yet
Upgraded AI reasoning models that pause to ‘think’ are key to the additional capabilities of Gemini 2.5, says Google.
Google unveils a next-gen family of AI reasoning models
Google has unveiled Gemini 2.5, the company's new family of AI reasoning models that will pause to 'think' before answering.