What does it take to build a machine that could unlock the deepest mysteries of the universe—and can its creators control what happens next?
In The Infinity Machine, journalist Sebastian Mallaby traces the extraordinary rise of Demis Hassabis, from child chess prodigy and video-game designer to co-founder of DeepMind and Nobel Prize-winning AI pioneer. Driven by a lifelong ambition to create artificial general intelligence, Hassabis assembled an unconventional team that achieved breakthroughs such as AlphaGo, AlphaFold, and Google’s Gemini models.
But the story is about far more than technological triumph. It reveals the rivalries, corporate power struggles, ethical dilemmas, and safety debates shaping the global AI race. As DeepMind, OpenAI, Microsoft, China, and other competitors accelerate toward increasingly powerful systems, one urgent question remains: Can humanity harness superintelligence without losing control of it?
Read the Instaread summary to discover the remarkable people, ideas, and decisions shaping the future of artificial intelligence.
