Before OpenAI or Anthropic existed, Google and Facebook fought over a small London AI startup called DeepMind. Its CEO Demis Hassabis turned down Mark Zuckerberg’s richer offer and sold to Larry Page’s Google for $650 million in 2014. A new book by Sebastian Mallaby reveals how a Palo Alto dinner, a poker-style bluff, and AI safety concerns decided everything.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Before OpenAI or Anthropic existed, Google and Facebook fought over a small London AI startup called DeepMind. Its CEO Demis Hassabis turned down Mark Zuckerberg’s richer offer and sold to Larry Page’s Google for $650 million in 2014. A new book by Sebastian Mallaby reveals how a Palo Alto dinner, a poker-style bluff, and AI… Read More »Why Google’s AI CEO said no to Zuckerberg and yes to Larry Page despite more money<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":100573,"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\/100572"}],"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=100572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}