Episode
Demis Hassabis and the Race to Build AI with Sebastian Mallaby
Software Engineering Daily · Nov 3, 2026 · 1 h 06 min
Demis Hassabis founded DeepMind in 2010, before machines could reliably tell a cat from a dog. He believed that artificial general intelligence was achievable, and that it should be built safely and deliberately. Along the way, Hassabis shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold, the system that cracked the fifty-year problem of predicting protein structures. Fifteen years on, the…