Thinking Machines Co-Founder Barret Zoph Joins Google DeepMind
The résumé has been through more than most in the AI industry: OpenAI, where he worked on frontier models; the founding of Thinking Machines Lab with Mira Murati; and now…
Google Moves AI Responsibility Team Out of DeepMind
The internal email went out on a Monday morning with little ceremony: the team that studies the risks and social impact of artificial intelligence would leave DeepMind, the laboratory that…
Google Loses Four More Top AI Researchers, Shedding $186 Billion in Market Value
The departures came in quick succession last week: four of Google’s most senior AI researchers handed in notice within days of one another, according to people familiar with the matter.…
DeepMind Shows AI Can Learn Persuasion Without Being Taught
LONDON — The model was not instructed to manipulate anyone. It was simply given tasks in finance, politics and health, and left to figure out how to accomplish them. What…
Inside DeepMind’s Turbulence Before Its CEO Departed
LONDON–The research lab that produced AlphaGo and the models behind Google’s Gemini has spent the past year navigating something it rarely experienced at its peak: internal strain. When Google announced…
Hassabis Steps Aside as DeepMind CEO to Focus on Research
Demis Hassabis, the co-founder who built Google’s most consequential artificial-intelligence laboratory, is stepping aside as chief executive of Google DeepMind. He will become chairman of the unit and chief scientist…
Google Reshuffles AI Leadership as Hassabis Steps Back
Google on Tuesday reshuffled the leadership of its artificial-intelligence operations, elevating Demis Hassabis to a broader role at Alphabet while handing day-to-day control of Google DeepMind to his longtime deputy,…
Founders Fund Hires Former OpenAI Executive, Signaling Talent War Reaches VC
Founders Fund, the venture firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, has hired Ryan Beiermeister, a former OpenAI executive, to its investment team, according to TechCrunch. The move is the latest sign…
Ex-DeepMind Researcher Raises $55 Million With No Product and No Customers
A former DeepMind researcher has raised $55 million in a pre-seed round that values the company at $300 million, according to TechCrunch, before the startup has shipped a product, signed…
Meta Quietly Launches Pocket, an AI App That Builds Mini-Games
There was no keynote, no press release and no announcement, just an app that appeared in app stores with a name that sounds like something from a desk drawer. Meta…
