Before Google deal, Mark Zuckerberg wanted to buy DeepMind: CEO Demis Hassabis shares what went wrong

Before Google sealed its landmark acquisition of DeepMind in 2014, Mark Zuckerberg made his own play for the British AI lab, a report has said. He lost, not because of money, but because of a dinner conversation that told company co-founder Demis Hassabis everything he needed to know about who is more fitting of the tech giants to help him achieve his goal of building Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

As Google co-founder Larry Page was in talks about DeepMind in 2013, Hassabis and his co-founder Mustafa Suleyman were not sitting still.