Demis Hassabis
- Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind:
- PhD in cognitive neuroscience
- A child chess prodigy & video game designer
Mustafa Suleyman
- CEO of Microsoft AI since March 2024.
- Co-founded Inflection AI (with Reid Hoffman and Karén Simonyan) in 2022.
- Head of Applied AI at DeepMind (focus on energy efficiency in data centers, health applications)
- Suleyman faced public accusations of workplace misconduct and harassment, disclosed by a 2019 investigation.
DeepMind
DeepMind was found in 2010 by Hassabis and Suleyman, with a 3rd co-founder: Shane Legg.
Major milestones
- AlphaGo: The AI that defeated world champion Lee Sedol at the complex game of Go, a feat many thought was decades away.
- AlphaFold: A revolutionary AI system that accurately predicted the 3D structure of proteins, solving a 50-year grand challenge in biology with massive implications for medicine and drug discovery.