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Demis Hassabis: Two Labs, Three Titles, and a $3.5B Drug Bet
Demis Hassabis now holds three formal roles inside Alphabet: Chairman of Google DeepMind, CEO of Isomorphic Labs, and the company's first Chief Scientist. StartupHub.ai data shows DeepMind employs 8,831 people with $1.33 billion in annual revenue, while Isomorphic Labs closed a $2.1 billion Series B in May 2026, carries a $3.5 billion valuation, and has $3 billion in combined pharmaceutical partnership ceilings with Eli Lilly and Novartis.
Demis Hassabis Steps Down as DeepMind CEO, Moves to AGI Focus
Demis Hassabis stepped down as CEO of Google DeepMind on August 5, 2026, taking on a chairman and Alphabet chief scientist role to focus on AGI strategy and Isomorphic Labs. The announcement came the same day Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le revealed they were leaving Google to co-found Discovery Loop. Alphabet shed roughly 5 percent of its market value on the news.
Apple's AI Pivot: Capitulation or Strategic Necessity?
