Google's AI lab, formed in April 2023 by merging DeepMind (founded in London in 2010 and acquired by Google in 2014) with Google Brain. It builds the Gemini models and scientific systems such as AlphaFold, and has been led day to day by Koray Kavukcuoglu since August 2026, with co-founder Demis Hassabis as Chair.
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Demis Hassabis
Co-founder; Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, 2010-present
Co-founder of DeepMind and 2024 Nobel laureate in chemistry for AlphaFold; since August 2026 Chair of Google DeepMind, Chief Scientist of Alphabet and CEO of...
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David Silver
Principal Research Scientist, then VP of Reinforcement Learning, 2013-2026
Led AlphaGo, AlphaZero and MuZero at DeepMind, co-wrote Reward is enough and The Era of Experience, and in 2026 founded Ineffable Intelligence to build a sup...
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Mustafa Suleyman
Co-founder; chief product officer, then head of applied AI, 2010-2019
Co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, author of The Coming Wave, and since March 2024 CEO of Microsoft AI, where since March 2026 he has concentrated on...
