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AdvertisementBefore DeepMind's Demis Hassabis became a leading figure in AI, he was a chess master who had won multiple world championships.
Hassabis told Thiel that the best chess players understood the unique strengths of the bishop and the knight, even though both pieces hold the same value.
It was not only DeepMind's first significant investment but also one of Thiel's first investments outside the Silicon Valley orbit.
He felt the power of Silicon Valley was sort of mythical, that you couldn't create a successful big technology company anywhere else.
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