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DeepMind Technologies Limited
Google DeepMind
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryArtificial intelligence
Founded15 November 2010; 14 years ago (2010-11-15)[1][2]
Founders
HeadquartersLondon, England[3]
Key people
ProductsAlphaGo, AlphaStar, AlphaFold, AlphaZero
RevenueIncrease £1.53 billion (2023)[4]
Increase £136 million (2023)[4]
Increase £113 million (2023)[4]
OwnerAlphabet Inc.[5]
Number of employees
c. 2,600 (2024)[6]
ParentDeepmind Holdings Limited[7]
Websitedeepmind.google
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DeepMind Technologies Limited, also known by its trade name Google DeepMind, is a British-American artificial intelligence research laboratory which serves as a subsidiary of Google. Founded in the UK in 2010, it was acquired by Google in 2014[8] and merged with Google AI's Google Brain division to become Google DeepMind in April 2023. The company is based in London, with research centres in Canada,[9] France,[10] Germany, and the United States.

DeepMind introduced neural Turing machines (neural networks that can access external memory like a conventional Turing machine),[11] resulting in a computer that loosely resembles short-term memory in the human brain.[12][13]

DeepMind has created neural network models to play video games and board games. It made headlines in 2016 after its AlphaGo program beat a human professional Go player Lee Sedol, a world champion, in a five-game match, which was the subject of a documentary film.[14] A more general program, AlphaZero, beat the most powerful programs playing go, chess and shogi (Japanese chess) after a few days of play against itself using reinforcement learning.[15]

In 2020, DeepMind made significant advances in the problem of protein folding with AlphaFold.[16] In July 2022, it was announced that over 200 million predicted protein structures, representing virtually all known proteins, would be released on the AlphaFold database.[17][18] AlphaFold's database of predictions achieved state of the art records on benchmark tests for protein folding algorithms, although each individual prediction still requires confirmation by experimental tests. AlphaFold3 was released in May 2024, making structural predictions for the interaction of proteins with various molecules. It achieved new standards on various benchmarks, raising the state of the art accuracies from 28 and 52 percent to 65 and 76 percent.

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  10. ^ "A return to Paris". DeepMind. 14 May 2024.
  11. ^ Graves, Alex; Wayne, Greg; Danihelka, Ivo (2014). "Neural Turing Machines". arXiv:1410.5401 [cs.NE].
  12. ^ Best of 2014: Google's Secretive DeepMind Startup Unveils a "Neural Turing Machine" Archived 4 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine, MIT Technology Review
  13. ^ Graves, Alex; Wayne, Greg; Reynolds, Malcolm; Harley, Tim; Danihelka, Ivo; Grabska-Barwińska, Agnieszka; Colmenarejo, Sergio Gómez; Grefenstette, Edward; Ramalho, Tiago (12 October 2016). "Hybrid computing using a neural network with dynamic external memory". Nature. 538 (7626): 471–476. Bibcode:2016Natur.538..471G. doi:10.1038/nature20101. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 27732574. S2CID 205251479.
  14. ^ Kohs, Greg (29 September 2017), AlphaGo, Ioannis Antonoglou, Lucas Baker, Nick Bostrom, retrieved 9 January 2018
  15. ^ Silver, David; Hubert, Thomas; Schrittwieser, Julian; Antonoglou, Ioannis; Lai, Matthew; Guez, Arthur; Lanctot, Marc; Sifre, Laurent; Kumaran, Dharshan; Graepel, Thore; Lillicrap, Timothy; Simonyan, Karen; Hassabis, Demis (5 December 2017). "Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm". arXiv:1712.01815 [cs.AI].
  16. ^ Callaway, Ewen (30 November 2020). "'It will change everything': DeepMind's AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures". Nature. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  17. ^ Geddes, Linda (28 July 2022). "DeepMind uncovers structure of 200m proteins in scientific leap forward". The Guardian.
  18. ^ "AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe". DeepMind. 28 July 2022.