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Google AI legend raises big money for startup targeting this cutting-edge goal

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Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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Demis Hassabis is the co-founder and CEO of Google’s DeepMind artificial-intelligence lab, which has spun out a startup called Isomorphic Labs to use AI to accelerate the creation of new drugs.

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