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DeepMind Technologies

Demis Hassabis has founded a number of dedicated AI companies , including Elixir Studios , DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs . At 17 , he joined the computer game company Bullfrog Productions , where he worked as a designer on science fiction game Syndicate . Here , Hassabis was the lead programmer for the highly influential Theme Park , released in 1994 , which won the industry ’ s Golden Joystick Award .

In 2010 , Hassabis founded the AI company DeepMind Technologies with Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman . The trio began working on AI technology by teaching it how to play old games from the 1970s and 80s , with a goal to create a generalpurpose AI that can be useful and effective for almost anything .

Hassabis attended Cambridge University where he studied for his computer science undergraduate degree , earning a double firstclass honours .

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