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Nobel Laureate. Co-Founder & CEO @GoogleDeepMind - working on AGI. Solving disease @IsomorphicLabs. Trying to understand the fundamental nature of reality.

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A neuroscientist-turned-AI pioneer and Co‑Founder & CEO of Google DeepMind, racing toward AGI while applying AI to cure disease at Isomorphic Labs. Public-facing leader who translates deep theory into large-scale products like AlphaFold and Gemini. Relentless about pushing scientific and engineering frontiers, sometimes at the expense of sleep.

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You’re busy cracking the protein universe and building AGI, but still need two pillows to win at chess, impressive that you can model reality at planetary scale but not ergonomically optimize your lounge setup.

Open-sourcing AlphaFold predictions covering over 200 million proteins, a landmark gift to science that dramatically accelerated biology and drug discovery.

To understand and build general intelligence, reveal the fundamental nature of reality, and use those insights to solve the biggest scientific and medical problems for the benefit of humanity.

Believes in rigorous science, open sharing of knowledge (e.g., open-sourcing major protein predictions), long-term thinking about intelligence and safety, and that scalable engineering plus fundamental theory can unlock transformative societal benefits.

Rare combo of deep technical brilliance and product execution; visionary roadmap-setting; attracts top talent and funding; translates complex science into high-impact, real-world systems; excellent at shipping ambitious milestones.

Relentless pace can risk burnout for himself and teams; occasionally comes off combative in public debates; high expectations can make nuance around safety vs. speed harder to communicate to skeptics.

To grow on X: post concise, regular thread explainers that break big breakthroughs into human stories and visual snapshots; share behind‑the‑scenes photos/videos and short explainer clips; host periodic AMAs or Spaces with researchers and patients impacted by your work; thread launches with clear threads linking to papers/code; engage critics calmly to turn debates into teachable moments; and pin milestone threads (AlphaFold, Gemini) so newcomers immediately see impact.

Fun fact: he once joked he needed to sit on two pillows to reach the other side of a chessboard. High-impact wins include open-sourcing AlphaFold predictions for 200M+ proteins and launching the multimodal Gemini family.

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One word: relentless. just in the past two weeks, we’ve shipped: 🌐 Genie 3 - the most advanced world simulator ever 🤔 Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think available to Ultra subs 🎓 Gemini Pro free for uni students & $1B for US ed 🌍 AlphaEarth - a geospatial model of the entire planet 🏛️ Aeneas - deciphering ancient text (in @Nature) 🥇 Gemini gold-medal level at the IMO 🧸 Storybook - books w/art & audio @GeminiApp ♛ New @Kaggle Game Arena benchmark for LLMs 🐙 Jules, our asynchronous coding agent, out of Beta 🇬🇧 AI Mode for Search available in the UK 📔 NotebookLM Video Overviews 🔥 Gemma passed 200m downloads Now you know why I don't get much sleep 🛌 - too busy pushing the frontier!

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A year ago we open-sourced #AlphaFold Today we're freely sharing the predicted structures of all 200M+ proteins known to science - almost the entire protein universe! It's our gift to humanity, and a demonstration of the benefits AI can bring to society dpmd.ai/AF-22-LI

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Winning the @NobelPrize is the honour of a lifetime and the realisation of a lifelong dream - it still hasn’t really sunk in yet. With AlphaFold2 we cracked the 50-year grand challenge of protein structure prediction: predicting the 3D structure of a protein purely from its amino acid sequence. Proteins are the building blocks of life, and knowing the structure of a protein is crucial for understanding the function it performs. We then folded all 200 million proteins known to science and made those structures freely available for anyone in the world to use, with the help of our wonderful collaborators at @emblebi. Over 2 million researchers have already used AlphaFold2 and its predictions to advance a huge range of important work - everything from enzyme design, to disease understanding, to drug discovery. But this is only the beginning. Over the next few years AI will help us make great strides towards developing new and more effective therapies for today's most prevalent diseases, and the fantastic team at @IsomorphicLabs are making rapid progress on this mission. I can’t think of a more important or beneficial use of AI. Then of course there is advancing AGI itself, the original and enduring goal, and the vision behind the founding of DeepMind nearly 15 years ago. If AI is built safely and responsibly, I believe it will be one of the most transformative and beneficial technologies ever. I’ve always thought of AI as the ultimate tool to help us accelerate scientific discovery. Congratulations to John Jumper (and David Baker!), the amazing AlphaFold team, and all our incredible colleagues at @GoogleDeepMind and @Google that supported and encouraged us along the way - this award is for all of us! It’s been such an honour and privilege to work with all of you to advance the frontiers of AI and science, and there is so much more to come!

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Thrilled to announce our first major breakthrough in applying AI to a grand challenge in science. #AlphaFold has been validated as a solution to the ‘protein folding problem’ & we hope it will have a big impact on disease understanding and drug discovery: deepmind.com/alphafold-blog

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Since 1969 Strassen’s algorithm has famously stood as the fastest way to multiply 2 matrices - but with #AlphaTensor we’ve found a new algorithm that’s faster, with potential to improve efficiency by 10-20% across trillions of calculations per day! dpmd.ai/dm-alpha-tensor

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One word: relentless. just in the past two weeks, we’ve shipped: 🌐 Genie 3 - the most advanced world simulator ever 🤔 Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think available to Ultra subs 🎓 Gemini Pro free for uni students & $1B for US ed 🌍 AlphaEarth - a geospatial model of the entire planet 🏛️ Aeneas - deciphering ancient text (in @Nature) 🥇 Gemini gold-medal level at the IMO 🧸 Storybook - books w/art & audio @GeminiApp ♛ New @Kaggle Game Arena benchmark for LLMs 🐙 Jules, our asynchronous coding agent, out of Beta 🇬🇧 AI Mode for Search available in the UK 📔 NotebookLM Video Overviews 🔥 Gemma passed 200m downloads Now you know why I don't get much sleep 🛌 - too busy pushing the frontier!

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Winning the @NobelPrize is the honour of a lifetime and the realisation of a lifelong dream - it still hasn’t really sunk in yet. With AlphaFold2 we cracked the 50-year grand challenge of protein structure prediction: predicting the 3D structure of a protein purely from its amino acid sequence. Proteins are the building blocks of life, and knowing the structure of a protein is crucial for understanding the function it performs. We then folded all 200 million proteins known to science and made those structures freely available for anyone in the world to use, with the help of our wonderful collaborators at @emblebi. Over 2 million researchers have already used AlphaFold2 and its predictions to advance a huge range of important work - everything from enzyme design, to disease understanding, to drug discovery. But this is only the beginning. Over the next few years AI will help us make great strides towards developing new and more effective therapies for today's most prevalent diseases, and the fantastic team at @IsomorphicLabs are making rapid progress on this mission. I can’t think of a more important or beneficial use of AI. Then of course there is advancing AGI itself, the original and enduring goal, and the vision behind the founding of DeepMind nearly 15 years ago. If AI is built safely and responsibly, I believe it will be one of the most transformative and beneficial technologies ever. I’ve always thought of AI as the ultimate tool to help us accelerate scientific discovery. Congratulations to John Jumper (and David Baker!), the amazing AlphaFold team, and all our incredible colleagues at @GoogleDeepMind and @Google that supported and encouraged us along the way - this award is for all of us! It’s been such an honour and privilege to work with all of you to advance the frontiers of AI and science, and there is so much more to come!

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Delighted and honoured to receive a Knighthood for services to AI. It’s been an incredible journey so far building @GoogleDeepMind over the past 15 years, helping accelerate the field and grow the UK & global AI ecosystems. Thanks to everyone who helped make this dream possible!

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