Google CEO Sundar Pichai responds to Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis making it to Time Magazine cover

Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently responded to Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis’ post expressing gratitude after being featured on Time Magazine cover. Hassabis has also been named in the 2025 Time100 list for his pioneering AI research, notably in deep reinforcement learning and AlphaFold’s protein structure prediction breakthroughs. Taking to X, Hassabis wrote “Honoured to be on the #TIME100 list and cover - and congratulations to all the other people featured. Thank you to the brilliant Jennifer Doudna for the lovely writeup.”
To this, CEO Sundar Pichai replied saying “Congrats!”.

As mentioned in Hassabis’ post, the Time 100 list profile on him was written by Jennifer Doudna — a Nobel Prize–winning biochemist, founder of the Innovative Genomics Institute, and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In her write-up, she says:
“Demis Hassabis is reshaping what’s possible in science. His work at DeepMind—most notably the development of AlphaFold, which earned him a share of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry—is already accelerating discoveries across biology and medicine. The ripple effects are real: labs around the world, including my own, are using his AI tools to tackle rare genetic diseases, antibiotic resistance, and even climate-driven challenges in agriculture. Demis brings a rare kind of mindset to biology, one shaped by deep study of neuroscience, cognition, and computation. He doesn’t just build powerful systems; he builds understanding. His approach presents biology as a system of patterns that can be interpreted, predicted, and ultimately engineered in ways never before possible.
In our conversations, I’ve been struck by his clarity of vision and sense of responsibility. He’s building tools that don’t just help us understand life, but help us shape it wisely. The future of biology won’t be siloed—it will be collaborative, interdisciplinary, and deeply creative. Demis is helping us get there faster.”

TIME magazine's 2025 list of the 100 Most Influential People highlights individuals making significant impacts across various fields globally. This year's honorees include political leaders, scientists, activists, artists, and entrepreneurs.
Other notable figures on the 2025 TIME100 list are Tesla CEO Elon Musk, US President Donald Trump, Facebook-parent Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Hollywood actress Scarlett Johnson, singer Ed Sheeran and actor Adam Scott, among others.