DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis now leads Google's unified AI research arm, aiming to maintain the tech giant's edge in the AI landscape with breakthroughs like AlphaGo and AlphaFold. Despite the success, challenges in integrating AI into tangible products and competition from entities such as OpenAI's ChatGPT persist. Hassabis, recognized for his significant contributions to AI, must now navigate Google's product strategy to leverage DeepMind's research advancements.

DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis now leads Google's unified AI research arm, aiming to maintain the tech giant's edge in the AI landscape with breakthroughs like AlphaGo and AlphaFold. Despite the success, challenges in integrating AI into tangible products and competition from entities such as OpenAI's ChatGPT persist. Hassabis, recognized for his significant contributions to AI, must now navigate Google's product strategy to leverage DeepMind's research advancements.

Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind, has been named the chief executive of Microsoft AI. He will contribute to Microsoft's expansion into AI consumer products, while his former colleague and DeepMind's other co-founder, Demis Hassabis, will lead AI research at Google. The journey of these two influential figures reflects the personal and competitive undercurrents driving the race to develop the next major computing platform.