Demis Hassabis and the Race to Build AI with Sebastian Mallaby

Demis Hassabis founded DeepMind in 2010, before machines could reliably tell a cat from a dog.

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1. 01Fifteen years on, the LLM race has erupted across rival labs and countries, and AI has become one of the most consequential and contested technologies of the era
2. 02His latest book, The Infinity Machine, is a portrait of Hassabis and DeepMind built on more than 30 hours of candid conversation, beginning just as ChatGPT set off the AI frenzy, a
3. 03And so I found myself embedded with Demis Asabis and DeepMind in one of the main labs, right as this large language model race took off and went crazy