DeepMind CEO Hassabis moves AGI deadline to 2029
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Demis Hassabis has tightened his AGI timeline to 2029, making him the most aggressive sitting frontier-lab CEO on record with a public forecast. In an Axios interview, Hassabis named one or two remaining technical breakthroughs DeepMind needs to clear within three years. DeepMind's Co-Scientist multi-agent system is already live across all 17 DOE national labs, providing the kind of real-world deployment data that likely informed the revised estimate. Open questions Which specific technical breakthroughs Hassabis identified as remaining: the Axios interview did not name them publicly.