The Story Behind DeepMind

How was a company like DeepMind created?

→ In 2010, a genius scientist named Demis Hassabis founded the company.

• Hassabis, born in 1976, is a British AI researcher, computer scientist, neuroscientist, and gamer.
• He became a chess master at the age of 13 and started developing games at 17.
• Between the ages of 17 and his university entrance, he took a gap year working at a game company to fund his education.
• In 1997, at the age of 21, he graduated from Cambridge University.
• After graduation, he worked as the lead AI programmer at a game company called Lionhead.
• In 1998, he founded a video game development company called Elixir Studios, retiring in 2005.
• In 2009, he earned a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from UCL and served as a visiting scientist at MIT. → His early research focused on imagination, memory, and amnesia.
• In 2010, he founded the machine learning startup DeepMind.

  “Solve Intelligence to Solve Everything Else” → Today, the company is focused on creating Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Why did Google acquire DeepMind?

→ In 2014, Google acquired DeepMind for approximately $600 million.

• At the time, the company had only about 50 employees.
• Moreover, their one-page website featured only a vague description: “Cutting-edge artificial intelligence company.”