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.