#DeepMind

The story of the companies, the investors, the research programmes, and the competitive dynamics that defined the AI industry from 2015 to 2025 — the people who believed they were building the most transformative and most dangerous technology in human history, and how that belief shaped what they built. The race to AGI, told from the inside.

The full story of the five-game match between the world's greatest Go player and DeepMind's AI system in Seoul, March 2016 — the move 37 that changed the match, Lee Sedol's astonishing comeback in Game 4, the existential questions the match raised about human intuition and machine reasoning, and why one professional Go player retired because of what he witnessed.

The full story of how DeepMind's AlphaFold 2 solved one of biology's grand challenges — predicting protein structures from amino acid sequences — and why this single AI achievement has already transformed drug discovery, biological research, and the relationship between AI and science. The most scientifically consequential AI result since the deep learning revolution began, and the event that earned AI its first Nobel Prize.

The neuroscience-inspired AI lab founded in London, acquired by Google, responsible for AlphaGo and AlphaFold, and committed to a vision of AI as a tool for scientific discovery. The full story of DeepMind — the research culture, the extraordinary victories, the tensions of operating inside one of the world's most powerful companies, and the vision of one of the most intellectually ambitious people in the history of AI.