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Demis Hassabis’s journey blends science, games and artificial intelligence

Profile highlights Demis Hassabis’s path from prodigy to Nobel laureate, showing how DeepMind breakthroughs like AlphaFold reshaped science and expanded confidence in ethical AI.
Demis Hassabis stands out as a rare polymath whose journey spans gaming, neuroscience and artificial intelligence. A child chess prodigy, he later co-founded DeepMind, driving breakthroughs such as AlphaFold that transformed protein research. His work blended scientific curiosity with computational rigor, earning global acclaim and a Nobel Prize, while reshaping expectations of what responsibly guided artificial intelligence can achieve for humanity worldwide, policy, science medicine