Overview
- DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis announced Sekhon’s appointment in a LinkedIn post confirming the new role.
- Sekhon will leave his operational duties at Bridgewater and take a seat on the hedge fund’s board of directors.
- At Bridgewater, Sekhon served as chief scientist and head of AI, helped build the AIA Labs unit, and held no investing responsibilities.
- Sekhon said he chose DeepMind because he sees it as the frontier lab best positioned to develop AGI safely.
- The hire comes as Google accelerates AI efforts and narrows the gap with OpenAI and Anthropic, with recent launches such as Gemini and an AI photo editor called Nano Banana.