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Google shakes up AI leadership as DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis shifts role

August 5, 2026 admin

Demis Hassabis, a Nobel laureate, will take the newly-created title of Alphabet’s chief scientist and transition from ‌being Google DeepMind CEO to being its chairman. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Google parent company Alphabet on Wednesday (August 5, 2026) announced a leadership overhaul of its AI division, with AI chief Demis Hassabis leaving his main…

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What is an AI agent? The computer science of the next wave of AI tools

December 19, 2024 admin

Interacting with AI chatbots like ChatGPT can be fun and sometimes useful, but the next level of everyday AI goes beyond answering questions: AI agents carry out tasks for you. Major technology companies, including OpenAI, Microsoft, Google and Salesforce, have recently released or announced plans to develop and release AI agents. They claim these innovations will bring newfound efficiency to…

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How will AlphaFold 3 change life sciences research?

June 20, 2024 admin

Proteins are one of the most important molecules of life, with almost every biological function from birth to death being regulated by them in some way. Each protein is made up of a string of smaller building blocks called amino acids, which contain all the information to transform proteins — from a single sequence to…

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Google DeepMind unveils next generation of drug discovery AI model

May 9, 2024 admin

Google DeepMind unveils next generation of drug discovery AI model. | Photo Credit: AP Google Deepmind has unveiled the third major version of its “AlphaFold” artificial intelligence model, designed to help scientists design drugs and target disease more effectively. In 2020, the company made a significant advance in molecular biology by using AI to successfully…

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AlphaGeometry and the threat of AI’s takeover of mathematics | Explained

March 13, 2024 admin

A few weeks ago, an animated discussion unfolded in a WhatsApp group whose members are mathematicians interested in the Indian Mathematical Olympiad. The spark was a Nature paper that announced a Google DeepMind artificial intelligence (AI) named AlphaGeometry had achieved a milestone: it could solve geometry problems at the level of the International Mathematical Olympiad,…

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