
DeepMind Signals AGI Era as Hassabis Exits CEO Role

DeepMind Signals AGI Era as Hassabis Exits CEO Role
DeepMind's Hassabis shifts to Alphabet Chief Scientist as Jeff Dean departs after 27 years, reshaping Google's entire AGI strategy.
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DeepMind's Hassabis shifts to Alphabet Chief Scientist as Jeff Dean departs after 27 years, reshaping Google's entire AGI strategy.


Inherent raised a 50M seed led by Index and Radical to build Faraday, an AI from ex-DeepMind founders that picks which science questions matter.


Google DeepMind CEO Hassabis narrows AGI timeline to 2029, calling the current moment the foothills of the singularity at Google IO 2026.
Google DeepMind's Gemini-powered evolutionary coding agent improved a 56-year-old algorithm and is already deployed in Google's own training infrastructure, recovering compute at scale.


Google DeepMind announced the world's first AI campus in Seoul on April 27, 2026, with Phase I site selection in Q3 2026 and a startup incubation hub launching in Q1 2027.


The co-creator of AlphaGo breaks out of stealth with Europe's largest-ever $1.1B seed round, backed by Sequoia, Lightspeed, and Nvidia, to build a superlearner AI that discovers knowledge without human data.


Recursive Superintelligence, co-founded by former Google DeepMind principal scientist Tim Rocktäschel, raised $500M in a pre-Series A led by GV and Nvidia at a $4B pre-money valuation just four months after incorporation.


Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 adds instrument reading, self-failure detection, and enhanced spatial reasoning to physical AI, launching April 15, 2026 with cross-embodiment transfer.