Demis Hassabis from DeepMind wins Nobel in chemistry

10/9/2024 – DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, a DeepMind researcher who led the company's efforts to build AI models that could predict protein structures, shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, along with David Baker from the University of Washington. Through his AI company, he had already spearheaded breakthroughs in Go and chess with AlphaGo and AlphaZero, and he has now won the Nobel Prize thanks to AlphaFold2. (photos: DeepMind)