Tag: google deepmind
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Jeff Dean’s New AI Startup Wants a $50 Billion Tag
Jeff Dean spent twenty seven years building Google’s brain. Now he is building someone else’s, and investors want to hand him fifty billion dollars to do it. Dean left Google a few weeks ago along with three of his longtime collaborators, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le, to start Discovery Loop, a company built…
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Google DeepMind Teaches a Robot to Use Its Whole Body
Most robot demos you’ve seen are an arm on a table, picking up a block, over and over. Google DeepMind just showed something different: a humanoid that walks across a room, bends its knees, and places an object on a shelf, all as one continuous motion instead of a chain of separate tricks. The system…
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Google Just Broke Up Its Nobel-Winning AI Team
Here is a strange one. The team that built AlphaFold, the AI system that won Google DeepMind an actual Nobel Prize, has basically been taken apart. The Financial Times reported that most of the original AlphaFold paper authors have been moved onto other projects over the past year. Some went to work on Gemini directly.…