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The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence
Sebastian Mallaby · 2026 · Penguin Press
A biographer of Alan Greenspan and venture capital draws on more than thirty hours of interviews with Demis Hassabis to trace DeepMind's path from a London startup to Google's AI engine room and the race to build artificial general intelligence.
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Summary
“A revelatory portrait of the visionary behind Google DeepMind, the race to control the future – and what it means to win.”
Based on more than thirty hours of interviews with Demis Hassabis along with conversations with his collaborators, rivals, and critics, the book traces Hassabis's path from a chess-playing child in North London to founding DeepMind and leading Google's AI research as it pursues artificial general intelligence. It covers DeepMind's scientific breakthroughs, its merger into Google, and the competition among AI labs racing toward more powerful systems.
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About the author
Sebastian Mallaby
Sebastian Mallaby is an English journalist and author, the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a contributing columnist at The Washington Post. He previously spent thirteen years at The Economist and eight years as a columnist and editorial board member at The Washington Post. His earlier books include More Money Than God, The Man Who Knew, and The Power Law.
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