Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis was an early angel investor in Anthropic, revealing a previously undisclosed link between two of AI’s most influential companies. The investment highlights Hassabis’s growing influence across the AI ecosystem, even as Google and Anthropic compete in frontier models. The report also notes that Google has separately backed Anthropic, while several former DeepMind staff have gone on to build major AI startups.

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