DeepMind launches institute led by Hassabis and Legg to broaden the AGI debate
emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-09-22
Google DeepMind is creating a new institute to broaden public debate around AGI, steered by Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg — a signal that leading labs want to actively shape the framing of AGI discourse. The same roundup mentioned OpenAI's Astra for Law, a GPT-6 tool connected to 230 million legal sources for law firms.
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