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‘Solve all diseases,’ you say?

A picture of Demis Hassabis onstage at Google I/O 2026 with the screen behind him saying “A new golden age of scientific discovery”

Let’s unpack what Demis Hassabis said at the end of yesterday’s Google I/O keynote.

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Toward the end of this year’s Google I/O keynote, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis declared, with a completely deadpan face, that the company hopes to “reimagine the drug discovery process with the goal of one day solving all disease.”

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