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Google DeepMind is a leading AI research lab focused on developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) safely and responsibly, while solving complex scientific problems.

Founded: September 2010 (as DeepMind), April 2023 (merged with Google Brain)
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom

AI Development Timeline

Track the evolution of Google DeepMind's AI technologies and key milestones.

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Gemini 1.5 Release

Model Release

Google DeepMind released Gemini 1.5, featuring a significantly improved context window of 1 million tokens, enabling the model to process and reason over vast amounts of information.

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Gemini Model Launch

Model Release

Google DeepMind launched Gemini, a multimodal AI model designed to understand and reason about text, images, audio, video, and code, with versions ranging from Ultra (most capable) to Nano (most efficient).

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23

DeepMind and Google Brain Merger

Company Milestone

DeepMind merged with Google Brain to form Google DeepMind, combining two of the world's leading AI research teams under one organization.

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22

AlphaFold Protein Structure Database Expansion

Scientific Breakthrough

DeepMind expanded the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database to include over 200 million protein structure predictions, covering almost all cataloged proteins known to science.

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22

Gato Generalist Agent

Research Publication

DeepMind introduced Gato, a generalist agent that could perform hundreds of different tasks across a wide range of environments using a single neural network.

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21

AlphaFold 2 Open Source Release

Scientific Breakthrough

DeepMind open-sourced AlphaFold 2, making the groundbreaking protein structure prediction system available to the scientific community.

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20

AlphaFold 2 in Nature

Scientific Breakthrough

DeepMind's AlphaFold 2 was recognized as a solution to the 50-year-old protein folding problem, with the results published in Nature.

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19

MuZero Algorithm

Research Publication

DeepMind developed MuZero, an algorithm that mastered Go, chess, shogi, and Atari without needing to be told the rules, combining planning with reinforcement learning.

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18

AlphaFold Debut at CASP13

Scientific Breakthrough

DeepMind's AlphaFold system won the CASP13 protein-folding competition, significantly outperforming other methods and demonstrating a major advance in protein structure prediction.

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17

AlphaGo Zero

Research Publication

DeepMind introduced AlphaGo Zero, which learned to play Go without human data, surpassing all previous versions by learning entirely through self-play.

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16

AlphaGo Defeats Lee Sedol

AI Achievement

DeepMind's AlphaGo defeated 18-time world champion Lee Sedol in a five-game match of Go, marking a historic milestone in AI development.

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14

Acquired by Google

Company Milestone

DeepMind was acquired by Google for a reported $500 million, while maintaining its research-focused structure.

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10

DeepMind Founded

Company Milestone

DeepMind was founded by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and Mustafa Suleyman with the goal of building artificial general intelligence.

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