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Shane Legg

Co-founder, Google DeepMind

Known asNew Zealand AI researcher (born 1973/4)
RolesCo-founder, Google DeepMind
EducationDalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research
LinksWikipedia · deepmind.google

About Shane Legg

Shane Legg is a co-founder of Google DeepMind.

Google DeepMind: Google's AI lab, behind AlphaGo, AlphaFold and the Gemini models.

Shane studied at Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research.

Today Google DeepMind ranks #10 of 144 on the AGIX Leaderboard, with 4,417 papers in the last year and 82 public models released in the last year. It's one of the companies shaping how general-purpose AI gets built, and Shane is part of that story.

Facts from public company information, Wikipedia and Wikidata; lab figures from AGIX data, 2 Nov 2026. Shane, or someone who works with them? Suggest an update.

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