DeepMind, which developed AlphaGo, the strongest Go AI, integrates with Google's AI department to become 'Google DeepMind'

DeepMind, a British AI development company, is known for developing the strongest Go AI ' AlphaGo Zero ', which has won even a professional Go player, and the protein 3D structure prediction AI ' AlphaFold '. It was announced that DeepMind and the Brain team, the AI department of Google Research, a sister company of Google, will be integrated.

Google DeepMind: Bringing together two world-class AI teams
https://blog.google/technology/ai/april-ai-update/

Announcing Google DeepMind
https://www.deepmind.com/blog/announcing-google-deepmind

“We have been an AI-first company since 2016 because we believe AI is the most important way to fulfill our mission,” said Google CEO Sundar Pichai. ”, Appealing that Google has been focusing on AI technology so far. In light of the accelerating progress of AI, we have decided to integrate the Brain team and DeepMind into ``Google DeepMind'' in order to ``create a department that can build higher performance systems more safely and responsibly''. clarified.

Pichai said, 'Brain team and DeepMind's AI achievements over the past 10 years include AlphaGo, AlphaFold, Transformers , Word2vec , WaveNet , sequence to sequence models , deep reinforcement learning, distributed systems and software frameworks such as TensorFlow and JAX . 'He said that by combining the two research organizations into one, the progress of AI could be further accelerated.

Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind, said, ``We live in a time when AI research and technology are advancing by leaps and bounds . (AGI) has the potential to drive the greatest social, economic and scientific transformation in history.' “The advances in AI research by the Brain team and DeepMind have laid much of the foundation for the AI industry today. I will create it,' he declared.

The phenomenal teams from Google Research's Brain and @DeepMind have made many of the seminal research advances that underpin modern AI, from Deep RL to Transformers. Now we're joining forces as a single unit, Google DeepMind, which I'm thrilled to lead ! https://t.co/n2cpn91AOl

— Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) April 20, 2023

According to Pichai CEO, CEO Hasabis will lead the development of the AGI system. In addition, Jeff Dean, head of the Brain team, will be appointed chief scientist of Google Research and Google DeepMind, directly under Pichai CEO.

Working with all our fantastic colleagues across Google, we have an opportunity to build AI and ultimately AGI to benefit humanity. Looking forward to working with @JeffDean in his new role as Google's Chief Scientist. And excited for what we create next at Google DeepMind!

— Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) April 20, 2023

“I am very excited about the next phase of this journey, the progress we are making on our mission, and all the ways we can help people reach their potential with more capable and responsible AI,” said Pichai. I commented.