Demis Hassabis

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Demis Hassabis is a computer games designer, AI programmer, world-class games player, and neuroscientist. A child chess prodigy, he achieved an ELO rating of 2300 by the age of 12, the then highest rating for a boy of that age in the world. During his gap year, after finishing his A-levels at 16, he co-created the classic Bullfrog Productions game, Theme Park, with famous games designer Peter Molyneux. He graduated in 1997 from Queens' College, Cambridge with a Double First in Computer Science.

In 1998, Hassabis founded now-defunct Elixir Studios, a London-based independent games developer. He grew the company to 60 people, signing publishing deals with Vivendi Universal and Microsoft, and was Executive Designer of Republic: The Revolution and Evil Genius.

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