💼 Business Apr 15, 2026 · Kamal Ahmed

Silicon Valley has no monopoly on AI brainpower. That’s why Demis Hassabis is very happy to stay in London

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Silicon Valley has no monopoly on AI brainpower. That’s why Demis Hassabis is very happy to stay in London
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When Demis Hassabis was 6 years old, he remembers his father giving him the age-old reassurance prompt used every day by millions of parents around the world—“do your best.” For a young Hassabis, already showing the precocious talents that were to culminate in his becoming one of the most important artificial intelligence leaders in the world, “do your best” opened up a whole host of possibilities. 



“I’m a bit of an extreme person,” he said. “And I took it in a way [that’s] extreme and logica

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