Google’s AI-driven approach has led to the company announcing an ambitious new development. This latest project, Google DeepMind, sees the company merging two of its leading AI teams.
According to a statement released by Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai, the company has introduced this new team in an effort to fast-forward Google’s AI research and development.
“This group, called Google DeepMind, will bring together two leading research groups in the AI field: the Brain team from Google Research, and DeepMind”, said Sundar.
Google Brain was a research division under the Google AI umbrella, focusing on deep learning and artificial intelligence. The team was responsible for the development and launch of TensorFlow, an open-source software library.
The other part of the merger, Deepmind Technologies, was a UK-based research laboratory. Google acquired the company in 2014 and it worked as an independent Alphabet research center until 2023.
Why The Sudden Merger?
This announcement comes in the wake of some major developments in AI. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Amazon’s Bedrock have stirred great excitement and intrigue in people. And Google wants to stamp its mark on this race by combining its two most accomplished AI research teams.
According to Sundar Pichai, “Combining all this talent into one focused team, backed by the computational resources of Google, will significantly accelerate our progress in AI.”
