FT: Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis was an early angel investor in Anthropic.
Rohan Paul Twitter · Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) · 2026-05-20
The Financial Times reports that Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis made an early angel investment in Anthropic, even as Google later committed billions to the same startup through cloud and AI partnership deals.
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Topics: ai-industryanthropicgoogle-deepmindventure-investment
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- Demis Hassabis personally angel-invested in Anthropic before Google made its large institutional investment.
- Google subsequently invested billions in Anthropic via cloud infrastructure and AI partnership deals.
- Former DeepMind researchers have collectively founded more than a dozen AI companies, forming a significant talent diaspora.
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Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis was an early angel investor in Anthropic.
While Google later put billions into the same company through cloud and AI deals.
DeepMind diaspora is actually super strong: former researchers have built more than a dozen AI companies