{"id":43884,"date":"2026-05-19T11:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/43884\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:17:15","slug":"nobel-winning-ai-giant-demis-hassabis-was-early-anthropic-investor-ft-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/43884\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel-winning AI giant Demis Hassabis was early Anthropic investor: FT"},"content":{"rendered":"

The founder of Google’s AI lab DeepMind<\/a> Demis Hassabis<\/a> was an early investor in US startup Anthropic<\/a>, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

The disclosure sheds light on the extent of the Nobel Prize winner’s influence over the global artificial intelligence<\/a> race.<\/p>\n

The British newspaper said Hassabis was an “angel investor” in the California-based company known for its Claude model, citing unnamed sources.<\/p>\n

Anthropic, a key player in the booming AI landscape, has announced a string of major agreements in recent months as it looks to secure the computing power needed to meet its growing needs.<\/p>\n

These include megadeals with Google and Broadcom, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia and SpaceX, and an infrastructure investment with Fluidstack.<\/p>\n

Hassabis co-founded DeepMind in 2010, which then focused on using artificial neural networks — which are loosely based on the human brain and underpin artificial intelligence — to beat humans at board and video games.<\/p>\n

Google bought the company four years later.<\/p>\n

In 2016, DeepMind shot to fame when its AI-driven computer program AlphaZero beat the world’s top player of the ancient Chinese board game Go.<\/p>\n

AlphaZero has since beat the world champion chess program Stockfish and conquered various retro video games.<\/p>\n

Hassabis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry<\/a> in 2024 for pioneering artificial intelligence techniques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The founder of Google’s AI lab DeepMind Demis Hassabis was an early investor in US startup Anthropic, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4341,26725,53,25,5044,7718,132,26723,7543,15448,26724],"class_list":["post-43884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-google","tag-ai-investments","tag-ai-megadeals","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-deepmind","tag-demis-hassabis","tag-google","tag-google-ai-lab","tag-google-deepmind","tag-nobel-prize-in-chemistry","tag-nobel-winning-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}