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    Davos 2026: China has caught up a lot with US, but yet to innovate beyond frontier, says Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis

    Over the next decade, artificial general intelligence (AGI) will dramatically accelerate science and human health, unleashing an era of “radical abundance,” believes Demis Hassabis, chief executive and cofounder of Google DeepMind, who began his pursuit of AGI back in 2010. The British computer scientist and Nobel laureate, who is now building the “engine room of…

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    Exclusive | Geoffrey Hinton on preventing an AI takeover and the ‘very worrying’ China-US tech race

    Exclusive | Geoffrey Hinton on preventing an AI takeover and the ‘very worrying’ China-US tech race

    Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist often called the “godfather of AI” because of his revolutionary neural network models inspired by the structure of the human brain. His research brought about a paradigm shift that enabled today’s machine learning technology. He won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics with John J. Hopfield of Princeton…

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