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title: "Demis Hassabis, the founder of Google DeepMind, has appeared as an early investor in Anthropic"
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description: "Demis Hassabis, the founder of Google DeepMind, has become an early investor in Anthropic, highlighting his influence in the artificial intelligence industry. Hassabis invested in Anthropic as an angel investor, and the company has become a core competitor to Google, with a valuation of $900 billion. Since 2021, researchers who left DeepMind have founded more than a dozen AI startups, raising a total of $14 billion in funding. Google is also increasing its investment in AI business, with senior executives from DeepMind being reassigned to core positions at Google"
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# Demis Hassabis, the founder of Google DeepMind, has appeared as an early investor in Anthropic

Google DeepMind founder Sir Demis Hassabis is an early investor in Anthropic. This previously undisclosed stake highlights the increasing influence of this Nobel laureate in the entire artificial intelligence industry.

Insiders revealed that Hassabis invested in Anthropic as an angel investor. Today, this company has become a core competitor of Google in the AI field and is also one of the fastest-growing startups globally.

In addition, Google has invested billions of dollars in Anthropic through cloud business and AI collaboration projects. According to sources close to the company, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has always regarded Hassabis as a role model in the industry, and the valuation given by the company's investors has now reached $90 billion.

According to venture capital data platforms PitchBook and Dealroom, since 2021, researchers who left DeepMind have founded more than a dozen AI startups, raising a total of at least $14 billion, coinciding with the news of Hassabis's investment. This includes the UK-based Heterogeneous Labs, which he also founded, and Nandu Intelligent, both of which collectively secured over $3 billion in funding just last month.

In 2014, Hassabis sold his AI lab in London to Google for £400 million. Since then, he has continued to serve as an angel investor for companies founded by his former colleagues.

In the investment list are Inference AI, founded by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, and Nandu Intelligent, founded by Hassabis's long-time partner David Silver. Suleyman joined Microsoft in 2024.

Meanwhile, Google is fully committed to ramping up its artificial intelligence business, with several senior DeepMind executives being reassigned to core important positions within the Google Group.

DeepMind's Chief Technology Officer Koray Kavukcuoglu was promoted last year to Google's Chief AI Architect; Pushmeet Kohli, who led the Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold project and other research, was promoted last month to Chief Scientist of Google Cloud

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