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# Demis Hassabis

## Profile
CEO of **Google DeepMind**.

## Role in the Source
Stated at **Davos** (referenced as Davos 2024 per enrichment overlay) that the **self-improvement loop is a primary pursuit for all major AI labs** — explicitly aligning DeepMind with the same trajectory pursued by [[entity-org-anthropic-d4|Anthropic]] and [[entity-org-openai-d4|OpenAI]].

## Significance
Hassabis's public statement is a third-party validation that the [[concept-karpathy-loop|Karpathy Loop]] paradigm is mainstream frontier-lab strategy — not a niche idea.

## Canonical Reference
- https://deepmind.google/about/demis-hassabis/