The Frenemies Running Microsoft and Google’s AI Ops Have History

Suleyman, the son of a taxi driver, and Hassabis, a chess child prodigy, both grew up in different parts of north London.The pair are separated by eight years, and Hassabis had already begun a computer science degree at the University of Cambridge when he met Suleyman in the mid-1990s.By 2010, the two had cofounded DeepMind along with fellow researcher Shane Legg. Less than four years later,…