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EPISODE · Feb 11, 2026 · 29 MIN

Google’s AI boss made OpenAI issue code red. Now he wants to solve disease. | Titans and Disruptors

from Fortune 500: Titans and Disruptors of Industry · host Fortune Magazine

Google DeepMind founder and CEO Sir Demis Hassabis is a master chess player, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and - as of 2024 - a Knight. Today, as a leader within Google’s booming AI team, Hassabis wants to make AI the “engine” driving the entire company.In this episode of Fortune 500: Titans and Disruptors of Industry, Fortune’s Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell sits down with Hassabis at the World Economic Forum in Davos to talk about how he and his companies are using AI to cure cancer, build universal agents, and move the world towards a future of “radical abundance.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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