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British AI research company co-founded by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and Mustafa Suleyman in 2010 — acquired by Google in 2014 — which built AlphaGo (defeated world Go champion), AlphaFold (solved protein folding), and AlphaZero (mastered chess/shogi/Go from scratch).
American AI researcher — co-founder of OpenAI — who invented Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) and co-created RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) — the training technique behind ChatGPT — who left OpenAI in 2024 to join Anthropic.
Canadian computer scientist and professor at the University of Alberta, co-author of the seminal Reinforcement Learning textbook with Andrew Barto, and author of 'The Bitter Lesson' essay.
Canadian-American computer scientist — Distinguished Research Scientist at DeepMind — professor at University of Alberta — co-inventor of temporal difference learning and the author of Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction — the father of modern reinforcement learning.