Who is Demis Hassabis, why he got who got Nobel prize for Chemistry and his connection with Google

At this year’s Google I/O, company CEO Sundar Pichai welcomed “for the first time on stage”, Sir Demis Hassabis. While he might not have been a well-known name until Google Brain and AI startup DeepMind that the company acquired in 2014 were clubbed together, his work has spoken for him. The CEO and co-founder of Google DeepMind, the new AI unit at the Search giant, has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work on AlphaFold, an artificial intelligence system that revolutionised protein structure prediction.