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AI Model
AlphaGo / AlphaZero
The 2016 win over Lee Sedol: deep RL's public arrival.
AlphaGo's 4–1 defeat of Go champion Lee Sedol in March 2016 was the moment deep learning captured public imagination; AlphaZero then learned Go, chess and shogi from self-play alone. The lineage ran on TPUs and taught the field the power of search plus learned evaluation: ideas that returned in today's reasoning models.
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Company
Google DeepMind
From AlphaGo to Gemini and AlphaFold, the lab with a Nobel Prize on the shelf.
DeepMind defined the deep-reinforcement-learning era (AlphaGo, AlphaZero), solved protein-structure prediction with AlphaFold, earning Demis Hassabis and John Jumper the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and, merged with Google Brain in 2023, now builds the Gemini frontier line, Veo video models and world-model research (Genie).
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Person
Demis Hassabis
DeepMind's founder-CEO: chess prodigy, Nobel laureate, AGI's steady hand.
Hassabis founded DeepMind in 2010 to 'solve intelligence, then use it to solve everything else': AlphaGo, AlphaZero and AlphaFold followed, the last earning him the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Now leading all of Google's AI, he pairs frontier Gemini releases with a scientist's insistence that true AGI remains 5–10 years out and that science, not chat, is…
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