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Title: CEO Company: Google DeepMind Industry: Technology

Demis leads Google DeepMind, the combined research powerhouse responsible for the Gemini model family. A child chess prodigy and 2024 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry( awarded for his work on AlphaFold), he is arguably the most decorated scientist in the field. Demis focuses on solving intelligence to solve everything else, applying AI to fundamental scientific problems like protein folding, material science and clean energy. In 2025, he accelerated DeepMind’ s efforts to build systems with advanced reasoning and planning capabilities, moving beyond chatbots to agents that can hypothesise and discover. Demis balances the pressure to commercialise Google’ s research with a deep commitment to safety, often warning that AGI could be as transformative – and dangerous – as the industrial revolution. He envisions a future where Isomorphic Labs, his drug discovery spin-off, uses AI to cure major diseases, validating his science-first approach.

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