
“While [Sam] Altman measured success with numbers, whether for investments or people using a product, [Demis] Hassabis chased awards,” writes Parmy Olson in her book Supremacy, about the co-founders of DeepMind and OpenAI. “[Hassabis] often told staff that he wanted DeepMind to win between three and five Nobel Prizes over the next decade.”
Just a few hours after Olson won the 2024 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book Award for Supremacy this week, Hassabis rendered the first edition out of date by accepting the Nobel Prize for chemistry in Stockholm for his work on an AI system that can predict the structure of all known proteins.