Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind. 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold. Leads development of the Gemini model family.
Hassabis is the only AI lab CEO with a Nobel Prize, and AlphaFold did something no chatbot has -- it proved AI can advance fundamental science. While the rest of the industry chases conversational AI revenue, DeepMind's research portfolio positions Google for breakthroughs in drug discovery, materials science, and mathematics that could dwarf the value of any chat product.
I’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!
It 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
We 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.