What happened to Demis Hassabis and DeepMind? Reddit asks why Google's lab faded from the frontier
saiyamangz · reddit · 2026-09-18
A Reddit thread asks why DeepMind has slipped out of the AI conversation: recent news is dominated by Anthropic and OpenAI, though DeepMind was clearly the frontier just a year or two ago. The poster reflects on Demis Hassabis — once seen as the humble, science-driven leader with Google's backing — and laments that ruthlessness and showmanship, and arguably less regard for humanity, seem to win in this industry.
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