Tech CEO Demis Hassabis is known for his role in DeepMind, an artificial intelligence company based in the United Kingdom and known as the subsidiary of Google's Alphabet. The CEO and his focus on the company have earned it one of the top recognitions in the world, and it is currently one of the top companies sought out with regards to AI. 

Tech CEO: Demis Hassabis from DeepMind

Google DeepMind's CEO Demis Hassabis
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Google Deepmind head Demis Hassabis speaks during a post-match press conference after the fifth and final game of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match between South Korean 'Go' player Lee Se-Dol and Google-developed supercomputer AlphaGo at a hotel in Seoul on March 15, 2016. A Google-developed computer programme had the last word in its machine vs human challenge with South Korean Go grandmaster Lee Se-Dol, winning the final game for a sweeping 4-1 series victory.

Demis Hassabis was born in London, England, on July 27, 1976, and has attended the University of Cambridge from 1995 to 1997 with top honors and a degree in Computer Science. Hassabis is also known as a chess master and is fond of gaming. 

He briefly joined Lionhead Studios before forming his own company, Elixir Studios are known for game development. He furthered his career for mind sports Olympiads like the Pentamind World Championships from years 1998 to 2003 and the Decamentathlon in 2003 and 2004. 

Alongside this, he is also known for winning the World Series of Poker for six different seasons. Hassabis' professional career ended in 2003 where the player retired.

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DeepMind was created by Hassabis, Mustafa Suleyman, and Shane Legg in 2011, and it had focused on artificial intelligence that had outstanding popularity and significance when it started. The company's products include that the "Deep Q Network", which promises a neural network that can play a video game at humans surpassing humans. 

DeepMind's AI and its Influence

In 2014, Google's Alphabet purchased DeepMind from Hassabis but kept him as CEO to develop more for the company and continue its run as an artificial intelligence company. Indeed, DeepMind is a legacy of the genius of Hassabis, bringing his brains and influence to a system that would surely carry on his brilliance and knowledge over time. 

The focus of the company's service is to provide the world with an AI that has the power to bring solutions to different problems, including health and scientific problems. 

DeepMind's AI is one of the most powerful in existence, providing its service for different issues that are known to the world now.

Google's DeepMind

Google's DeepMind AI is said to be one of the most powerful artificial intelligence technologies in the world, especially with the many things that it has focused on and aims to study. The powerful AI is said to be working on a cure for Cancer and Dementia in the past, and predictions have said that it would be one of the focuses of the company.

DeepMind is a digital superintelligence that focuses on looking into different studies and focuses of this world, something that Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that he fears. All things in life are dangerous when getting out of hand or getting past the point of their intended use. AI is a part of that, but the creations of Hassabis and his team are something that aims to help humanity as we know it. 

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