Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg Launch DeepMind Institute for AGI Research
demishassabis · x · 2026-09-16
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis announced the DeepMind Institute, co-founded with Shane Legg, to expand interdisciplinary research on key questions of the AI era. The two have discussed AGI's impact on economy, science and society for over 20 years and hope it spurs the discussions needed to get the next steps right.
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