ClaimsDemis Hassabis

“Incredibly excited to welcome @clmt to @DeepMind!”

Demis Hassabis, DeepMind CEO, on his X account 9 March 2023 Post by @demishassabis on X, 2023-03-09 (X)

Factual Field building and careers

Clement (@clmt) joined DeepMind.

Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.

Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.

What would count as true or false

True: the person with the handle @clmt (Clément Farabet) joined DeepMind on or around March 2023, as shown by a dated announcement, a professional profile or press coverage. Mostly true: he joined, but the timing or a minor detail differs slightly, for example a start date a few weeks off or joining Google DeepMind after the merger. Mostly false: an offer or arrangement was announced, but he did not actually take up a role at DeepMind around that time. False: records show he did not join DeepMind.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (4)

  1. E1 Clement Farabet on alphaXiv alphaXiv

    “VP of AI Engineering Google DeepMind Mar 2023 - Present”

  2. E2 14 Past & Future LDV Vision Summit Speakers Share Their Views On What's The Next Big Thing LDV Capital · 2 March 2023

    “Meet Luc Vincent of Meta, Steffen Tjerrild of Synthesia, Kristen Fortney of BioAge, Clément Farabet of DeepMind”

  3. E3 Interview with Clement Farabet, VP of Research at DeepMind — LDV Capital LDV Capital · 18 April 2023

    “Most recently, Clément joined DeepMind to help their extraordinary team continue to lead in their quest to build artificial general intelligence (AGI).”

  4. E4 Work — Clément Farabet Clément Farabet (personal site) Own record

    “I am a VP of AI Engineering at Google DeepMind, leading AI Platform & Models”

Reasoning

The claim holds up. An LDV Capital interview from April 2023 says Clément Farabet "joined DeepMind" and calls him its VP of Research (E3). An LDV post dated 2 March 2023 already lists him as "of DeepMind" (E2). His alphaXiv profile shows him as VP of AI Engineering at Google DeepMind from March 2023 to the present (E1). Together these independent sources show he joined DeepMind around March 2023, as the claim says.

Cite this claim

Demis Hassabis, “Clement (@clmt) joined DeepMind.” (said 9 March 2023). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_55a028759b2f, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_55a028759b2f

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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