Mark Zuckerberg’s bid for AI lab DeepMind in 2014 failed not due to finances, but a dinner with co-founder Demis Hassabis. Hassabis sought a partner prioritizing Artificial General Intelligence, not just another tech trend. Zuckerberg’s broad enthusiasm for multiple emerging technologies, including VR and 3D printing, revealed his lack of singular focus on AGI, leading Hassabis to choose Google’s offer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mark Zuckerberg’s bid for AI lab DeepMind in 2014 failed not due to finances, but a dinner with co-founder Demis Hassabis. Hassabis sought a partner prioritizing Artificial General Intelligence, not just another tech trend. Zuckerberg’s broad enthusiasm for multiple emerging technologies, including VR and 3D printing, revealed his lack of singular focus on AGI, leading… Read More »Before Google, Meta wanted to buy DeepMind: CEO shares what went wrong<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":100407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}