Chair of Google DeepMind and chief scientist of Alphabet
Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis is Google DeepMind's co-founder and chair, Alphabet's chief scientist, and a Nobel laureate for AI-based protein structure prediction.
About Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis is the co-founder and chair of Google DeepMind and chief scientist of Alphabet. In a 2026 leadership announcement, Google said he would hand over day-to-day operational responsibilities at DeepMind to focus on AI strategy and science, while continuing to lead Isomorphic Labs.
Hassabis shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction. His work with John Jumper on AlphaFold2 helped researchers predict the three-dimensional shapes of proteins, supporting scientific applications including pharmaceutical and environmental research.
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- Jack Dorsey's "Open the Frontier" Answers Amodei — With Open Weights →
Three days after Dario Amodei's "We Must Pace the Frontier," Jack Dorsey published his own long-form answer on X: "open the frontier." He backs scrutiny and independent evaluators, but rejects industry-wide capability limits negotiated by today's labs, arguing for open weights, published reproduction data, and a "freedom to leave" any single provider instead.
- Pace the Frontier Goes Cross-Partisan: Baker, Burry, Trump, and Harris React →
Three days after Dario Amodei's "Pace the Frontier" essay, the debate jumped from AI labs into markets and national politics. Investor Michael Burry called the pacing warnings "self-serving hype tied to IPOs," AI researcher Gary Marcus voiced similar doubt, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar cast AI safety as ideological overreach, President Trump dismissed the whole premise as a "hoax," and Kamala Harris called for Congress to pass a law slowing frontier AI down. Here's who said what, and why it now matters more than the essay itself.
- Elon Musk Reposts Wait But Why's 2015 AI Intelligence Curve — Why It Went Viral Again →
On September 14, 2026, Elon Musk reposted Tim Urban''s decade-old Wait But Why cartoon where machine intelligence stays flat, then shoots past human and Einstein levels while stick figures go from "Haha adorable monkey tricks" to "The fuck??" Musk called it on target and said AI is improving rapidly — the same exponential-curve story he has used for years, now landing against GPT-6 Astra, pacing debates, and fresh AGI declarations. Here is what the image actually argues, what changed since 2015, and how to read the repost without mistaking a meme for a measurement.
- Is "Pacing the Frontier" Really About Safety — Or a Plateau in Disguise? →