Google Merges Its Brain Team With DeepMind To Ramp Up AI Efforts; Check Details

GOOGLE is set to up its AI game with the new Google DeepMind. The team will be an amalgamation of Google Research's Brain Team and DeepMind. This combined team backed by resources from the search giant will "significantly accelerate" Google's progress in AI, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, quoted in his blog. DeepMind was acquired by the tech giant in 2014, according to The Verge.

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google Deepmind, shall lead the team of these AI systems that would feed the next-gen Google products with AI, Pichai adds. Jeff Dean, former SVP of Google Research and Health, will serve as the Chief Scientist in the team.

"Google Research will continue its important work leading fundamental advances in computer science across areas such as algorithms and theory, privacy and security, quantum computing, health, climate and sustainability and responsible AI, and will report to James Manyika along with his existing Tech & Society teams," the Google boss said.

Meanwhile, in a tweet, Hassabis wrote, "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!"

AI efforts in the past

The Google boss adds Google has been using AI to improve products including YouTube, Search and Gmail, since 2016. Further, it uses the computational powers in the Pixel phones too.

The move can be seen as an effort of the tech giant to tackle the AI race that Microsoft is steadily leaping ahead after it invested in AI research and deployment firm OpenAI. While AI-powered Bing has fared ahead of Bard and is available to a wider group across the globe, Google is yet to catch up.

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Meanwhile, Google recently announced access to Bard in the US and UK after joining a waitlist. Recently, Pichai shared that Bard will move to the PaLM model (from the current LaMDA) for enhanced functionalities soon. Further, reports have hinted that a niche group of Google employees have rough reactions with reference to Bard.