Demis Hassabis from DeepMind wins Nobel in chemistry

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, a DeepMind researcher who led the company’s efforts to build AI models that could predict protein structures, shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, along with David Baker from the University of Washington. Through his AI company, he had already spearheaded breakthroughs in Go and chess with AlphaGo and AlphaZero, and now earned the Nobel in chemistry thanks to AlphaFold2. (photos: DeepMind)