Google’s AI architect lived rent-free in Elon Musk’s head
Published: (May 5, 2026 at 09:11 AM EDT)
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Source: The Verge
Source: The Verge
About a week into the Musk v. Altman trial, we’ve heard from some of the most powerful people in tech — including OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Elon Musk’s fixer Jared Birchall, and Musk himself. One of the most prominent characters is hovering around the margins: Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind.
Hassabis is 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, reportedly for between $400–650 million. Since then, he’s led many of Google’s largest AI research breakthroughs, such as AlphaFold, and has continued to climb the ladder from there…
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