Hassabis launches DeepMind Institute for AGI-era research, gets mocked for self-congratulatory title
yuvalpi · x · 2026-09-18
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis announced the DeepMind Institute, expanding interdisciplinary research with co-founder Shane Legg on key questions of the AI era, after 20+ years of the two discussing AGI's impact on the economy, science and society. The announcement's title was quickly mocked as self-absorbed, with replies joking about another famously self-congratulatory figure in the field.
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