Sir Demis Hassabis is the chief executive officer of Google DeepMind, formed from the 2023 merger of DeepMind, which he co-founded in London in 2010, and Google Brain. A former child chess prodigy and video game designer, Hassabis holds a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from University College London. He co-developed AlphaFold, an AI system that predicts protein structures with remarkable accuracy, work for which he and colleague John Jumper were awarded a share of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Hassabis has been knighted for services to artificial intelligence and has consistently framed DeepMind and Google DeepMind's mission around using AI to accelerate scientific discovery, alongside the organization's development of consumer and enterprise-facing Gemini models.