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Google DeepMind is Alphabet's AI research lab, formed from the 2023 merger of DeepMind and Google Brain, creator of Gemini and AlphaFold.

DeepMind was founded in London in 2010 by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman as an independent AI research company. Google acquired DeepMind in 2014, and in April 2023 it was merged with Google's other AI research group, Google Brain, to form the unified Google DeepMind organization under CEO Demis Hassabis. The lab is known for landmark research including AlphaGo, the first program to defeat a world champion Go player, and AlphaFold, which solved the decades-old protein structure prediction problem; the work behind AlphaFold earned Hassabis and colleague John Jumper the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Google DeepMind now develops Google's Gemini family of multimodal foundation models, which power Google Search AI features, the Gemini app, and Google Cloud AI products, alongside continued fundamental research in reinforcement learning, robotics and scientific applications of AI. With headcount having grown to roughly 5,600 employees by 2026, Google DeepMind sits at the center of Alphabet's AI strategy, though it has seen executive turnover, including co-founder Mustafa Suleyman departing in 2024 to lead Microsoft AI.

Founded
2010
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Sector
lab

Key people

  • Demis Hassabis — Chair, Google DeepMind; Chief Scientist, Alphabet
  • Koray Kavukcuoglu — Senior Vice President, Google DeepMind; Chief AI Architect, Google
  • Shane Legg — Co-Founder and Chief AGI Scientist, Google DeepMind
  • Lila Ibrahim — Chief Operating Officer, Google DeepMind

Tools

  • Gemini Code Assist

    AI coding assistance for teams, with code completion, generation, chat, debugging, testing, and Google Cloud integrations.

  • NotebookLM

    AI research assistant that answers questions about your sources and creates summaries, audio, video, quizzes, and other study materials.

  • Gemini CLI

    Open-source terminal agent for understanding code, editing files, running commands, searching the web, and automating developer workflows.

  • Gemini

    AI assistant for writing, research, image and video creation, voice conversations, file analysis, and connected Google apps.

  • Google AI Studio

    Google AI Studio is a web tool for testing Gemini models, creating prompts, generating code, and building AI applications.

  • Firebase Studio

    A browser-based cloud workspace for building web, backend, and mobile apps with AI agents, templates, code tools, and Firebase services.

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