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How one question from Google co-founder ‘convinced’ Demis Hassbis to sell DeepMind

A casual walk at Elon Musk’s birthday party in 2013 led to a pivotal question from Google co-founder Larry Page to DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis. Page’s offer of Google’s vast resources to pursue artificial general intelligence convinced Hassabis to abandon his independent venture, ultimately leading to Google’s acquisition of DeepMind in 2014.

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