Demis Hassabis
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis gets UK knighthood for ‘services to artificial intelligence’
Demis Hassabis, CEO and one of three founders of Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) subsidiary DeepMind, has been awarded a knighthood in the U.K. for “services to artificial intelligence.” Ian Hogarth,…
Google hopeful of fix for Gemini’s historical-image diversity issue within weeks
Google is hopeful it will soon be able to “unpause” the ability of its multimodal generative AI tool, Gemini, to depict people, per DeepMind founder, Demis Hassabis. The capability to…
The field of drug discovery has been supercharged by the capabilities of AI, which several companies have applied in various ways to turn an enormous practical problem into a tractable…
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14 VCs discuss COVID-19 and London’s future as a tech hub
The UK has created 63 tech unicorns in the past decade (according to Dealroom), and it almost goes without saying that the vast majority of those companies were based out of London, the country’s largest tech hub. Famously, London’s DeepMind, an AI startup, was acquired by Google in 2014 for $500 million, but it has…
Graphcore, the AI chipmaker, raises another $150M at a $1.95B valuation
The U.K. has a strong history when it comes to processors, but the global chip market has seen some ups and downs of late. Today comes some big news that…
After beating the world’s elite Go players, Google’s AlphaGo AI is retiring
Google’s AlphaGo — the AI developed to tackle the world’s most demanding strategy game — is stepping down from competitive matches after defeating the world’s best talent. The latest to succumb…
Machines 3, humans 1… That’s the current score in a five-match series being played out between DeepMind’s AlphaGo and human Go world champion, Lee Sedol.
