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DeepMind

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A leading AI research laboratory owned by Google, responsible for developing the AlphaFold system.


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Summary

DeepMind, a British-American artificial intelligence research laboratory and subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., was founded in the UK in 2010 and acquired by Google in 2014. In April 2023, it merged with Google AI's Google Brain division to become Google DeepMind, with headquarters in London and research centers in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, and Switzerland. DeepMind is renowned for its advancements in AI, including the development of neural Turing machines and reinforcement learning models capable of playing complex games. Its AlphaGo program famously defeated Go world champion Lee Sedol in 2016, and its AlphaZero program achieved mastery in Go, chess, and shogi. The company also made significant strides in protein folding prediction with AlphaFold in 2020, releasing over 200 million predicted protein structures on the AlphaFold database in July 2022. More recently, Google DeepMind has been responsible for developing Google's family of large language models, Gemini, as well as generative AI tools like Imagen, Veo, and Lyria. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper of DeepMind were recognized for their work on AlphaFold, which solved the protein folding problem and spurred commercial ventures like Isomorphic Labs.

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Research Data
Extracted Attributes
  • Type

    Artificial intelligence research laboratory

  • Mission

    To solve intelligence and then use artificial intelligence to solve everything else

  • Founders

    Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, Mustafa Suleyman

  • Headquarters

    London, UK

  • Founding Date

    2010

  • Research Centers

    United States, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland

  • Key Research Areas

    Neural Turing machines, reinforcement learning, protein folding prediction, artificial general intelligence (AGI), game-playing AI, generative AI

  • Headquarters Address

    Handyside Street, King's Cross, London Borough of Camden, London, Greater London, England, N1C 4BP, United Kingdom

Timeline
  • DeepMind Technologies Limited was founded in the UK by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and Mustafa Suleyman. (Source: Wikipedia, Web Search)

    2010

  • DeepMind was acquired by Google. (Source: Wikipedia, DBPedia, Web Search)

    2014

  • DeepMind introduced neural Turing machines. (Source: Wikipedia)

    2014

  • DeepMind became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. after Google's restructuring. (Source: DBPedia, Web Search)

    2015

  • DeepMind's AlphaGo program defeated Go world champion Lee Sedol in a five-game match. (Source: Wikipedia, DBPedia, Web Search)

    2016

  • DeepMind made significant advances in the problem of protein folding with AlphaFold. (Source: Wikipedia, DBPedia)

    2020

  • DeepMind announced Flamingo, a single visual language model (VLM). (Source: DBPedia)

    2022-04-28

  • Over 200 million predicted protein structures, representing virtually all known proteins, were released on the AlphaFold database. (Source: Wikipedia, DBPedia)

    2022-07

  • DeepMind announced the development of DeepNash, a model-free multi-agent reinforcement learning system capable of playing Stratego at an expert level. (Source: DBPedia)

    2022-07

  • DeepMind merged with Google AI's Google Brain division to become Google DeepMind. (Source: Wikipedia)

    2023-04

  • Demis Hassabis and John Jumper were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their AI research contributions for protein structure prediction (AlphaFold). (Source: Related Documents, Web Search)

    2024

Google DeepMind

DeepMind Technologies Limited, trading as Google DeepMind or simply DeepMind, is a British–American artificial intelligence research laboratory which serves as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Founded in the UK in 2010, it was acquired by Google in 2014 and merged with Google AI's Google Brain division to become Google DeepMind in April 2023. The company is headquartered in London, with research centres in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, and Switzerland. In 2014, DeepMind introduced neural Turing machines (neural networks that can access external memory like a conventional Turing machine). The company has created many neural network models trained with reinforcement learning to play video games and board games. It made headlines in 2016 after its AlphaGo program beat Lee Sedol, a Go world champion, in a five-game match, which was later featured in the documentary AlphaGo. A more general program, AlphaZero, beat the most powerful programs playing go, chess and shogi (Japanese chess) after a few days of play against itself using reinforcement learning. DeepMind has since trained models for game-playing (MuZero, AlphaStar), for geometry (AlphaGeometry), and for algorithm discovery (AlphaEvolve, AlphaDev, AlphaTensor). In 2020, DeepMind made significant advances in the problem of protein folding with AlphaFold, which achieved state of the art records on benchmark tests for protein folding prediction. In July 2022, it was announced that over 200 million predicted protein structures, representing virtually all known proteins, would be released on the AlphaFold database. Google DeepMind has become responsible for the development of Gemini (Google's family of large language models) and other generative AI tools, such as the text-to-image model Imagen, the text-to-video model Veo, and the text-to-music model Lyria.

Web Search Results
  • Google DeepMind - Wikipedia

    DeepMind Technologies Limited,( asGoogle DeepMind or simply DeepMind, is a British–American artificial intelligence research laboratory which serves as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Founded in the UK in 2010, it was acquired by Google in 2014( and merged with Google AI's Google Brain division to become Google DeepMind in April 2023. The company is headquartered in London, with research centres in the United States, Canada,( France,( Germany, and Switzerland. [...] Unlike earlier AIs, such as IBM's Deep Blue "Deep Blue (chess computer)") or Watson "Watson (computer)"), which were developed for a pre-defined purpose and only function within that scope, DeepMind's initial algorithms were intended to be general. They used reinforcement learning, an algorithm that learns from experience using only raw pixels as data input. Their initial approach used deep Q-learning with a convolutional neural network.( They tested the system on video games, notably early [...] The start-up was founded by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman in November 2010.( Hassabis and Legg first met at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London (UCL).(

  • Company Profile: Who Is DeepMind? - Technology Magazine

    DeepMind Technologies is a UK artificial intelligence company founded in September 2010, and acquired by Google in 2014. The company is based in London, with research centres in Canada, France, and the United States. In 2015, it became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. [...] DeepMind Technologies' goal is to "solve intelligence", which they are trying to achieve by combining "the best techniques from machine learning and systems neuroscience to build powerful general-purpose learning algorithms". They are trying to formalize intelligence in order to not only implement it into machines, but also understand the human brain. [...] The company first came to public attention in 2016, when DeepMind’s AlphaGo won a best-of-five against Go world champion Lee Sedol. Though chess-playing supercomputers such as IBM’s Deep Blue have been around since the 90s, DeepMind approached the massively more complex game of Go with machine learning techniques including neural networks and reinforcement and imitation learning. Its impact so far:

  • Sir Demis Hassabis

    Hassabis is the founder and CEO of DeepMind, a neuroscience-inspired AI company, bought by Google in 2014 — their largest European acquisition to date. At DeepMind, he has fused the fields of machine learning with the insights of neuroscience to pursue the goal of “artificial general intelligence” — AGI — a general purpose learning technology with powerful implications for every area of scientific research. DeepMind’s mission, as Hassabis puts it, is “to solve the problem of intelligence and [...] In 2011, Hassabis founded the AI company DeepMind Technologies. He defined its mission as solving “the problem of intelligence” and then using artificial intelligence “to solve everything else.” Combining insights from neuroscience and machine learning with the latest developments in computer hardware, Hassabis is seeking to construct a mechanism for general-purpose learning — “artificial general intelligence” (AGI). [...] technology giant Google, which purchased DeepMind for over $6500 million in 2014. Hassabis remains CEO of DeepMind, which operates as an independently managed entity, with headquarters in North London.

  • About - Google DeepMind

    Google DeepMind brings together two of the world’s leading AI labs — Google Brain and DeepMind — into a single, focused team led by our CEO Demis Hassabis. Over the last decade, the two teams were responsible for some of the biggest research breakthroughs in AI, many of which underpin the flourishing AI industry we see today. [...] DeepMind started in 2010, with an interdisciplinary approach to building general AI systems. The research lab brought together new ideas and advances in machine learning, neuroscience, engineering, mathematics, simulation and computing infrastructure, along with new ways of organizing scientific endeavors. [...] Now, as Google DeepMind, our world-class talent is harnessing our unparalleled computing infrastructure to create the next wave of research breakthroughs and transformative products. Guided by the scientific method and with a holistic approach to responsibility and safety, we’re working to ensure AI benefits everyone and helps solve the biggest challenges facing humanity. Explore our breakthrough models -------------------------------

  • Demis Hassabis

    ### DeepMind [edit] Hassabis is the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind, a machine learning AI startup, founded in London in 2010 with Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman. Hassabis met Legg when both were postdocs at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, and he and Suleyman had been friends through family.( Hassabis also recruited his university friend and Elixir partner David Silver "David Silver (computer scientist)").( [...] DeepMind's mission is to "solve intelligence" and then use intelligence "to solve everything else".( More concretely, DeepMind aims to combine insights from systems neuroscience with new developments in machine learning and computing hardware to unlock increasingly powerful general-purpose learning algorithms that will work towards the creation of an artificial general intelligence (AGI). The company has focused on training learning algorithms to master games, and in December 2013 it announced [...] Sir Demis Hassabis (born 27 July 1976) is a British artificial intelligence (AI) researcher, and entrepreneur. He is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Google DeepMind,( and Isomorphic Labs,( and a UK Government AI Adviser.( In 2024, Hassabis and John M. Jumper were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their AI research contributions for protein structure prediction.(

DeepMind Technologies is a British artificial intelligence subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. and research laboratory founded in 2010. DeepMind was acquired by Google in 2014 and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet Inc, after Google's restructuring in 2015. The company is based in London, with research centres in Canada, France, and the United States. DeepMind has created a neural network that learns how to play video games in a fashion similar to that of humans, as well as a Neural Turing machine, or a neural network that may be able to access an external memory like a conventional Turing machine, resulting in a computer that mimics the short-term memory of the human brain. DeepMind made headlines in 2016 after its AlphaGo program beat a human professional Go player Lee Sedol, a world champion, in a five-game match, which was the subject of a documentary film. A more general program, AlphaZero, beat the most powerful programs playing go, chess and shogi (Japanese chess) after a few days of play against itself using reinforcement learning. In 2020, DeepMind made significant advances in the problem of protein folding with AlphaFold. In July 2022, it was announced that over 200 million predicted protein structures, representing virtually all known proteins, would be released on the AlphaFold database. DeepMind posted a blog post on 28 April 2022 on a single visual language model (VLM) named Flamingo that can accurately describe a picture of something with just a few training images. In July 2022, DeepMind announced the development of DeepNash, a model-free multi-agent reinforcement learning system capable of playing the board game Stratego at the level of a human expert.

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DeepMind, Handyside Street, King's Cross, London Borough of Camden, London, Greater London, England, N1C 4BP, United Kingdom

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