Google consolidates its teams to accelerate AI innovation
A major re-org at Google should ensure that the company remains a leader in AI development. Various research, platform and hardware teams are being merged to make it easier to make strategic choices.
CEO Sundar Pichai explains how Google will change its structure. First, the company is consolida... Read more
Deepmind CEO expects to spend more than $100 billion on AI
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google's AI subsidiary Deepmind, estimates that the company will spend more than $100 billion on AI, given enough time.
He was responding to questions from the audience at a TED conference in Vancouver, Canada. Someone asked about Google Deepmind's response to the announce... Read more
AI model Google predicts weather more accurately than previously possible
Google has developed GraphCast, an AI model that can make faster and better weather predictions than traditional algorithms. The AI model also requires less infrastructure.
Google continues to develop AI models for various applications. A latest addition to this is the development of its GraphCa... Read more
Google puts a planner, teacher and life coach in one chatbot
Google is said to be tinkering with a whole set of new AI tools. These tools should make your life easier and help you in 21 areas of your life.
Planner, teacher and life coach. These are all functions that Google wants generative AI to perform. The company is tinkering with AI tools to power c... Read more
British PM kicks off London Tech Week with AI safety project
This week UK PM Rishi Sunak kicked off London Tech Week 2023. He announced that the British government has invested record sums in AI regulations and the development of responsible AI. Major AI companies will give a UK task force early access to their tech in order to develop safety policies.
T... Read more
Google integrates DeepMind and Brain teams, creating Google DeepMind
The move aims to consolidate Google's artificial intelligence (AI) research divisions and keep pace with other tech giants in the field. DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis said in a blog post that the new unit would work closely with Google's product areas to deliver AI research and product... Read more
Meta launches Cicero, an AI that can play Hasbro’s ‘Diplomacy’
The AI agent uses natural language to achieve diplomatic resolutions among human players.
Meta AI this week announced the development of Cicero, which it claims is the first AI to achieve human-level performance in the popular Hasbro strategy game 'Diplomacy'. Cicero demonstrated this by playing... Read more
OpenAI in ‘advanced talks’ to raise funding from Microsoft
Microsoft, which committed $1 billion to the artificial intelligence research organization three years ago, is reportedly considering providing additional funding to OpenAI.
The Wall Street Journal and The Information reported the news on Thursday. OpenAI and Microsoft are in "advanced talks" on... Read more
Europe to introduce a new deeptech research institute
A new computer science and AI institution, supported by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, and DeepMind, is in the works. It is intended to nurture the next generation of deeptech firms and entrepreneurs.
In September 2022, Bulgaria's Sofia University will launch the Institute for Computer Scien... Read more
DeepMind becomes profitable by leveraging ties to Google
The company may be making most of its revenue by working for Alphabet.
DeepMind, the U.K.-based AI lab, has issued its latest financial report showing that the company has become profitable for the first time.
DeepMind, which seeks to develop artificial general intelligence, or "AGI", was ac... Read more