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Demis Hassabis

The co-founder and head of Google DeepMind, Google's AI lab. A former chess prodigy and video game designer, he led AlphaGo, which beat one of the world's best go players in 2016, and then AlphaFold, which predicts the shape of proteins.

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AlphaFold earned him the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, shared with John Jumper and David Baker.

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