Google’s AI architect lived rent-free in Elon Musk’s head
The Verge • 5/5/2026
Summary
Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind and the architect of Google's in-house AI lab. He founded DeepMind as an independent startup in 2010 and sold it to Google four years later for between $400-650 million. Since then, he has led many of Google's significant AI research breakthroughs, including AlphaFold. The Musk v. Altman trial has featured testimonies from notable tech figures, including OpenAI president Greg Brockman and Elon Musk.
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