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DeepMind

DeepMind is an artificial intelligence company creating programs that use deep neural networks to teach themselves how to play a variety of games like Go and chess.

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DeepMind is an artificial intelligence company creating programs that use deep neural networks to teach themselves how to play a variety of games like Go and chess. The company was founded on September 23, 2010, by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and Mustafa Suleyman and was acquired by Google in 2014.

Timeline

2014
DeepMind becomes a subsidiary of Google.
2010
DeepMind was founded by Demis Hassabis, Mustafa Suleyman and Shane Legg.

Funding rounds

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Funding round amount (USD)
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DeepMind Series A round, February 2011
Series A round
February 2011
Founders Fund
Horizons Ventures
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DeepMind Series A round, January 2011
Series A round
January 1, 2011
Founders Fund
Horizons Ventures
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AlphaFold

Developed by DeepMind, AlphaFold is an artificial intelligence system for protein folding and developing 3D models of proteins.

deepmind.com/blog/art...discovery
Artificial intelligence (AI)
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Demis Hassabis

Co-Founder, CEO

Mustafa Suleyman

Co-Founder, Head of Applied AI

Shane Legg

Co-Founder, Chief Scientist

Further reading

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DeepMind Control Suite

Yuval Tassa, Yotam Doron, Alistair Muldal, Tom Erez, Yazhe Li, Diego de Las Casas, David Budden, Abbas Abdolmaleki, Josh Merel, Andrew Lefrancq, Timothy Lillicrap, Martin Riedmiller

http://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00690v1

Academic paper

DeepMind Lab

Charles Beattie, Joel Z. Leibo, Denis Teplyashin, Tom Ward, Marcus Wainwright, Heinrich Küttler, Andrew Lefrancq, Simon Green, Víctor Valdés, Amir Sadik, Julian Schrittwieser, Keith Anderson, Sarah York, Max Cant, Adam Cain, Adrian Bolton, Stephen Gaffney, Helen King, Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, Stig Petersen

http://arxiv.org/abs/1612.03801v2

Academic paper

Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35420579

Machine Theory of Mind

Neil C. Rabinowitz, Frank Perbet, H. Francis Song, Chiyuan Zhang S,. M. Ali Eslami, Matthew Botvinick

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.07740.pdf

Academic paper

Documentaries, videos and podcasts

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Companies

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News

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Description
Google-DeepMind food supplements discussed in secret talks
Martin Coulter
March 4, 2021
Business Insider
Enthusiasm for the project was quickly dampended by internal divisions.
Google's DeepMind planned food division with Hampton Creek
Martin Coulter
March 3, 2021
Business Insider
DeepMind cofounders Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman are investors in the controversial food startup.
This DeepMind scientist's landmark book on AI influenced hit movie Ex Machina. Now you can read it for free.
Martin Coulter
February 7, 2021
Business Insider
Summary List PlacementA senior expert in...
Google moved DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman over bullying claims - Business Insider
Martin Coulter
January 27, 2021
Business Insider
"I apologize unequivocally to those who were affected," Suleyman said.
Google develops an AI that can learn both chess and Pac-Man
John Timmer
December 24, 2020
Ars Technica
MuZero handles both rules-based and open-ended games.
No rules, no problem: DeepMind's MuZero masters games while learning how to play them
Devin Coldewey
December 23, 2020
TechCrunch
DeepMind has made it a mission to show that not only can an AI truly become proficient at a game, it can do so without even being told the rules. Its newest AI agent, called MuZero, accomplishes this not just with visually simple games with complex strategies, like Go, Chess, and Shogi, but with visually [...]
DeepMind's AI agent MuZero could turbocharge YouTube
By Leo Kelion
December 23, 2020
BBC News
The successor to AlphaGo is being used to create a more efficient type of video compression.
What AlphaGo Can Teach Us About How People Learn
Will Knight
December 23, 2020
Wired
David Silver of DeepMind, who helped create the program that defeated a Go champion, thinks rewards are central to how machines--and humans--acquire knowledge.
The most exciting scientific breakthroughs of 2020, chosen by scientists
Guardian Staff
December 20, 2020
the Guardian
The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft approaching the International Space Station for a docking, 17 November. Photograph: Nasa/Zuma Wire/Rex/Shutterstock
The most exciting scientific breakthroughs of 2020, chosen by scientists
Guardian Staff
December 20, 2020
the Guardian
The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft approaching the International Space Station for a docking, 17 November. Photograph: Nasa/Zuma Wire/Rex/Shutterstock
Google wrote off $1.3bn debt for loss-making AI startup DeepMind - Business Insider
Martin Coulter
December 17, 2020
Business Insider
The move underscores Google's commitment to DeepMind, with shows little sign of turning a profit any time soon.
The Guardian view on DeepMind's brain: the shape of things to come
Editorial
December 6, 2020
the Guardian
Editorial: This is an achievement that answers one big scientific question but raises more fundamental ones for society
DeepMind co-founder: Gaming inspired AI breakthrough
BBC News
December 2, 2020
BBC News
The discovery is expected to advance medical research in treating disease.
DeepMind protein-folding breakthrough provokes debate over hype - Business Insider
Martin Coulter
December 2, 2020
Business Insider
One professor at the University of California branded DeepMind's announcement 'laughable'.
DeepMind's AI Makes Gigantic Leap in Solving Protein Structures
Ewen Callaway
December 1, 2020
Scientific American
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
DeepMind's AlphaFold AI has solved a 50-year old problem of biology
December 1, 2020
The Indian Express
Google's artificial intelligence unit took a giant step to predict the structure of proteins, potentially decoding a problem that has been described as akin to mapping the genome
DeepMind AI handles protein folding, which humbled previous software
John Timmer
November 30, 2020
Ars Technica
Google's AI specialists tackle biology's toughest computational problem.
DeepMind AI breaks through decades-old protein folding puzzle
Conor Hale
November 30, 2020
FierceBiotech
Researchers at DeepMind, Google's artificial intelligence-focused sibling, believe they've now cracked the code, with a computer model that can translate a chain of amino acids into a 3D structure.
DeepMind's protein-folding AI has solved a 50-year-old grand challenge of biology
Will Heaven
November 30, 2020
MIT Technology Review
AlphaFold can predict the shape of proteins to within the width of an atom. The breakthrough will help scientists design drugs and understand disease.
DeepMind's AI biologist can decipher secrets of the machinery of life
Michael Le Page
November 30, 2020
New Scientist
AI firm DeepMind's latest creation, AlphaFold, can predict the shape of proteins from their sequence alone. This fiendish problem normally requires time-consuming experiments, but is key to understanding the machinery of life
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deepmind.com

Company attributes

Industry
Machine learning
Artificial intelligence (AI)
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Audio
Video production
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AI safety
Synthetic Media
Location
London
Googleplex
Company status
Active
CEO
Demis Hassabis
Founder
Demis Hassabis
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Mustafa Suleyman
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Shane Legg
Crunchbase
crunchbase.com/organiz...nancials
Legal name
DeepMind Technologies Limited
Parent organization
Google
Alphabet Inc.
Legal classification
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Subsidiary
Date incorporated
2010
Number of Employees (ranges)
500–999
Number of employees
700
Full address
5 New Street Square London EC4A 3TW United Kingdom
Investors
Founders Fund
Horizons Ventures
Founded date
September 23, 2010
Latest funding round date
February 2011
Competitors
Neurala

Other attributes

Country
United Kingdom
Headquarters
London
Official name
DeepMind Technologies Limited
Wikidata ID
Q15733006

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