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Google DeepMind

Google’s main AI research lab, formed in 2023 by merging DeepMind with Google Brain, and the team behind the Gemini models.

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Contents
  1. What it is
  2. History
  3. Timeline
  4. Sources

What it is

Google DeepMind is the AI research lab inside Google. It builds the Gemini models that power Google’s Gemini app and AI features across Search, Android and Workspace.

History

DeepMind was founded in London in 2010 and bought by Google in 2014. On April 20, 2023, Google combined it with its other AI research team, Google Brain, to form Google DeepMind, with Demis Hassabis as CEO.

The lab is known for AlphaGo, the system that beat top human players at the board game Go, and AlphaFold, which predicts the 3D structure of proteins. In 2024, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for that work.

Timeline

  1. DeepMind is founded in London.

  2. Google acquires DeepMind.

  3. Google merges DeepMind and Google Brain into a single unit called Google DeepMind.

  4. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold’s protein structure prediction.

Sources

  1. About Google DeepMind, Google DeepMind
  2. Google merges DeepMind and Google Brain AI research groups, SiliconANGLE
  3. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024, Nobel Prize Outreach

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