Google merges two AI teams into Google DeepMind

According to Neowin , Brain is an internal AI team and part of the Google Research division from the company itself. As for DeepMind, it is a UK-based company founded in 2010 and acquired by Google in 2014.

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The merger of the two AI teams was announced by Google CEO Sundar Pichai in a recent announcement. Pichai said that combining the talents from Brain and DeepMind into a centralized team supported by the company's computing resources will significantly accelerate Google's progress in the field of AI.

It is known that the achievements of Google's previous AI teams include prominent names such as AlphaGo, Transformers, word2vec, WaveNet, AlphaFold or software frameworks such as TensorFlow and JAX to represent, train and deploy machine learning on a large scale.

DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis will take over as CEO of the combined company. Google's former head of AI Jeff Dean will serve as Google's chief scientist , reporting to Pichai.

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Google's announcement of the consolidation of its AI teams comes as the company tries to catch up with Microsoft in AI innovation. In March, the company announced its AI chatbot called Bard, but the service's launch was not as successful as expected and was met with controversy. A new report even claims that the company rushed Bard's launch over objections from some employees, including many on the company's AI ethics team. In addition, Google is also working on its own AI video and art generators.

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