Fortune Archives: The end of an era at Google DeepMind
Seven months ago, Fortune’s Allie Garfinkle found DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis waxing philosophical about the vastness of the universe at London’s UCL Observatory, home of the 164-year-old Fry Telescope. Her fascinating Fortune cover profile portrayed Hassabis—Nobel laureate, founder of the AI drug-design company Isomorphic, and the man steering Google’s AI efforts with Gemini—as less of a corporate executive than a scientist-philosopher.