A bit much describing our tech leadership as smartest people we've ever seen.

I would call the founders of DeepMind (Demis Hassabis, Mustafa Suleyman, Shane Legg) very smart people. Im pretty sure with the amount of funding everyone of these companies have, they have a long list of very smart researchers in their companies.

I do not mean Suckerberg or Eric Schmidt.

Greediest, perhaps?