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The AI CEOs love to pontificate about AI curing cancer, but it seems like DeepMind is the only one actively working on these research problems, while OpenAI/Anthropic largely chase enterprise/coding revenue.

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Google can self fund from their war chest while OpenAI and Anthropic are hat in hand.

Also I think Hassabis was long focussed on using AI for science. He got a PhD in neuroscience before starting DeepMind.

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