# Demis Hassabis (slim)

> Demis Hassabis is co-founder of Google DeepMind. DiffusionGemma 26B A4B IT, EmbeddingGemma 300M, Gemma 4 12B IT, Gemma 4 26B A4B IT, Gemma 4 31B IT, Gemma 4 E2B IT and Gemma 4 E4B IT on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder, Google DeepMind.

Demis Hassabis co-founded DeepMind in 2010 with Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman and leads Google DeepMind.

## What Demis builds

- [DiffusionGemma 26B A4B IT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-it.md), graded D, 50/100, in Open-weight models. DiffusionGemma 26B A4B IT is Google DeepMind's experimental open-weight text diffusion model on the Gemma 4 26B A4B mixture-of-experts architecture, 25.2B parameters with 3.8B active, taking text, images and video and writing text in 256-token blocks, under Apache 2.0. Co-founder, Google DeepMind, researched 2026-10-28.
- [EmbeddingGemma 300M](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/embeddinggemma-300m.md), graded D, 50.7/100, in Embeddings & rerankers. EmbeddingGemma 300M is Google DeepMind's open-weight text embedding model of 308M parameters, returning 768-dimension vectors that truncate to 512, 256 or 128 from up to 2,048 tokens in over 100 languages, gated under the Gemma Terms of Use. Co-founder, Google DeepMind, researched 2026-10-28.
- [Gemma 4 12B IT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-12b-it.md), graded BB, 71.3/100, in Open-weight models. Gemma 4 12B IT is Google DeepMind's open-weight instruction-tuned dense model, 11.95B parameters in an encoder-free design, taking text, images, video frames and audio with a 262,144-token context, published on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0. Co-founder, Google DeepMind, researched 2026-10-28.
- [Gemma 4 26B A4B IT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it.md), graded BB, 72.2/100, in Open-weight models. Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is Google DeepMind's open-weight instruction-tuned mixture-of-experts model, 25.2B parameters with 3.8B active, taking text and images with a 262,144-token context, published on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0. Co-founder, Google DeepMind, researched 2026-10-28.
- [Gemma 4 31B IT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-31b-it.md), graded BB, 74.1/100, in Open-weight models. Gemma 4 31B IT is Google DeepMind's open-weight dense multimodal model of 30.7B parameters, taking text and images with a 256K-token context, published on Hugging Face in BF16 with 4-bit QAT builds under Apache 2.0. Co-founder, Google DeepMind, researched 2026-10-28.
- [Gemma 4 E2B IT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-e2b-it.md), graded C, 60.4/100, in Open-weight models. Gemma 4 E2B IT is Google DeepMind's small open-weight instruction-tuned model for phones and laptops, 2.3B effective parameters (5.1B with per-layer embeddings), taking text, images, video frames and audio with a 131,072-token context, published on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0. Co-founder, Google DeepMind, researched 2026-10-28.
- [Gemma 4 E4B IT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-e4b-it.md), graded B, 63.2/100, in Open-weight models. Gemma 4 E4B IT is Google DeepMind's small open-weight instruction-tuned model for phones and laptops, 4.5B effective parameters (8B with per-layer embeddings), taking text, images, video frames and audio with a 131,072-token context, published on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0. Co-founder, Google DeepMind, researched 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [Brendan O’Donoghue](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/brendan-o-donoghue/), Director of Research; DiffusionGemma / Gemini Diffusion lead
- [Gus Martins](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/gus-martins/), Gemma Product Manager
- [Min Choi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/min-choi/), EmbeddingGemma launch product manager; current Gemini models PM
- [Mustafa Suleyman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mustafa-suleyman/), Co-founder, DeepMind
- [Sahil Dua](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sahil-dua/), EmbeddingGemma research lead; launch lead research engineer
- [Sebastian Flennerhag](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sebastian-flennerhag/), Research Scientist; DiffusionGemma research lead
- [Shane Legg](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/shane-legg/), Co-founder and Chief AGI Scientist, Google DeepMind

## Questions

### Who is Demis Hassabis?

Demis Hassabis co-founded DeepMind in 2010 with Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman and leads Google DeepMind.

### What does Google DeepMind make?

Anchor Terminal lists DiffusionGemma 26B A4B IT, EmbeddingGemma 300M, Gemma 4 12B IT, Gemma 4 26B A4B IT, Gemma 4 31B IT, Gemma 4 E2B IT and Gemma 4 E4B IT from Google DeepMind.

### How are Demis's tools graded?

DiffusionGemma 26B A4B IT is graded D, 50 out of 100; EmbeddingGemma 300M is graded D, 50.7 out of 100; Gemma 4 12B IT is graded BB, 71.3 out of 100; Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is graded BB, 72.2 out of 100; Gemma 4 31B IT is graded BB, 74.1 out of 100; Gemma 4 E2B IT is graded C, 60.4 out of 100; Gemma 4 E4B IT is graded B, 63.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://uk.linkedin.com/in/lgusmartins
- https://x.com/gusthema
- https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/diffusion-gemma-faster-text-generation/
- https://arxiv.org/html/2608.00146v1
- https://x.com/flennerhag
- https://x.com/bodonoghue85
- https://gemma.ai/
- https://x.com/Google
- https://deepmind.google/
- https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/discord
- https://gemma.ai/resources/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_DeepMind
- https://deepmind.google/about/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demis_Hassabis
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Legg
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Suleyman
- https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-embeddinggemma/
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20354
- https://x.com/sahildua2305
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/minschoi
- https://x.com/iohcsnim
- https://huggingface.co/google/embeddinggemma-300m

These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.
