Friends From the Old Neighborhood Turn Rivals in Big Tech's A.I. Race

Mustafa Suleyman and Demis Hassabis, once close friends from a London neighborhood, have become key rivals in the tech industry's A.I. race. Suleyman, raised in a modest family, and Hassabis, a chess prodigy, co-founded DeepMind together. Today, Hassabis leads Google DeepMind, while Suleyman heads Microsoft AI, marking their shift from collaborators to competitors in the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence.