The release of Elixir's first game, Republic: The Revolution, a highly ambitious and unusual political simulation game, was delayed due to its huge scope, which involved an AI simulation of the workings of an entire fictional country. In addition to managing the company, Hassabis served as executive designer of the BAFTA-nominated games Republic: The Revolution and Evil Genius. Hassabis left Lionhead in 1998 to found Elixir Studios, a London-based independent games developer, signing publishing deals with Eidos Interactive, Vivendi Universal and Microsoft. At Lionhead, Hassabis worked as lead AI programmer on the 2001 "god" game Black & White. Games designer Peter Molyneux, with whom Hassabis had worked at Bullfrog Productions, had recently founded the company. Career and research Lionhead Īfter graduating from Cambridge, Hassabis worked at Lionhead Studios. Hassabis then left Bullfrog to study at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he completed the Computer Science Tripos and graduated in 1997 with a Double First from the University of Cambridge. He earned enough from his gap year to pay his own way through university. Theme Park, a simulation video game, sold over ten million copies and won a Golden Joystick Award, and inspired a whole genre of simulation sandbox games.
He completed his A-levels and scholarship level exams two years early at the ages of 15 and 16 respectively.Īsked by Cambridge University to take a gap year due to his young age, Hassabis began his computer games career at Bullfrog Productions, first level designing on Syndicate, and then at 17 co-designing and lead programming on the 1994 game Theme Park, with the games designer Peter Molyneux.
He went on to be educated at Christ's College, Finchley, a state-funded comprehensive school in East Finchley, North London. Hassabis was briefly home-schooled by his parents, during which time he bought his first computer, a ZX Spectrum 48K funded from chess winnings, and taught himself how to program from books.
He represented the University of Cambridge in the Oxford-Cambridge varsity chess matches of 1995, 19, winning a half blue. A child prodigy in chess from the age of 4, Hassabis reached master standard at the age of 13 with an Elo rating of 2300 and captained many of the England junior chess teams. Hassabis was born to a Greek Cypriot father and a Chinese Singaporean mother and grew up in North London.
He is the chief executive officer and co-founder of DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs, and a UK Government AI Advisor. In his early career he was a video game AI programmer and designer, and an expert board games player. Demis Hassabis CBE FRS FREng FRSA (born 27 July 1976) is a British artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur.
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