"Good morning. We're in the thick of the AI revolution. But we may look back on January 2014 as one the most pivotal moments in business history. That was the month Demis Hassabis sold his AI company, DeepMind, to Google. He rebuffed a higher offer from Meta's Mark Zuckerberg. And the idea of Google owning something so powerful scared Elon Musk to such a degree that he decided to launch a rival company with Sam Altman: OpenAI."
"Fast forward to today, and Demis is still the one to beat. He runs all of Google's AI initiatives, including Gemini, which is quickly eating away at OpenAI's user base. In his spare time, Demis won a Nobel Prize for being able to accurately predict how proteins fold, and he runs a startup, Isomorphic, that wants to use AI to "solve all disease.""
"where I asked him how he manages his teams-and his time-to do two hard jobs at once (he splits his day into two, with his second work day going from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m., after which he clocks some sleep). We discussed how he is setting targets to return Google to its "golden era" of constant shipping and innovation, after a period when it felt like it was asleep at the AI wheel."
Demis Hassabis sold DeepMind to Google in January 2014, rejecting a higher offer from Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and prompting Elon Musk to help found OpenAI. Hassabis now leads Google's AI initiatives, including Gemini, and runs research and startups such as Isomorphic aiming to use AI to solve disease. He won a Nobel Prize for advances in protein-folding prediction. He splits his day to manage multiple roles and sets targets to return Google to a "golden era" of constant shipping and innovation. He describes an innovator's dilemma and emphasizes making models best-in-class as a nucleus for products.
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