Demis Hassabis

Demis Hassabis is the chief executive of Google DeepMind. He enters the corpus naming the root-node problems the lab is targeting, fusion, room-temperature superconductors, batteries, quantum error correction and weather prediction, on the thesis that solving them unlocks everything downstream. He returns as a bellwether for timelines, putting humanoid robotics eighteen months out and later conceding Google lacks the TPUs to run two frontier model families at once.