Jamie Little

Google DeepMind's timeline to date for those who don't know - Did you know they partnered with Open AI twice? Here's we go: 2010 Co-founded by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, Mustafa Suleyman 2011 > Raised an undisclosed Series A from Founders Fund & Horizons Ventures. I think Elon Musk also invested at this time. 2012 > Facebook tries to acquire DeepMind but fails 2013 > DeepMind reveals having developed an AI algorithm able to learn how to play iconic early video games like Breakout and Pong simply by watching them being played on a vintage 1977 Atari 2600 games console. 2014 > Google engages in its largest European acquisition to date with a deal to buy DeepMind for around $500 million. From then on, DeepMind started becoming known worldwide. 2015 > DeepMind's AlphaGo beats the European Go champion Fan Hui, a 2 dan (out of 9 dan possible) professional, five to zero. This is the first time an artificial intelligence defeats a professional Go player. 2016 > DeepMind generates £40.3 million in revenue after their deep learning tool has been deployed in many environments across Google 2017 > DeepMind’s safety team partners with OpenAI in the development of an algorithm which can infer what humans want by being told which of two proposed behaviors is better. > DeepMind announces AlphaGo Zero, a software capable of mastering the Chinese game of Go without help from human players. > DeepMind recorded £54.4 million up 35% from £40.3 million in 2016. 2018 > DeepMind partners with OpenAI in a new paper that proposes a new method to train reinforcement learning agents in ways that enables them to surpass human performance. > DeepMind, along with tech leaders, including Elon Musk, sign a pledge promising to not develop “lethal autonomous weapons.” > DeepMind unveils AlphaFold, an algorithm able to predict the complex, three-dimensional shapes into which proteins can be folded. 2019 > DeepMind's AI AlphaStar is revealed to outperform human professionals at StarCraft II, beating the humans 10 games in a row. > DeepMind has also struggled to break even with its growing expenses, which include the computing necessary to train massive AI models and a large headcount (around 1,000 employees). Alphabet was forced to write off nearly £1.1 billion ($1.5 billion) of DeepMind’s debt. 2020 > DeepMind made a leap in the field of AI with its system, AlphaFold, which was recognized as a solution to the “protein-folding problem.” 2021 > Revenue rose to £889.4 million and profit stood at £102.4 million > Trained Gopher - A 280 billion parameter language model that was better than OpenAI's GPT-3 2022 > Created an AI system named AlphaCode that it says “writes computer programs at a competitive level.” 2023 > Google Brain merges with DeepMind as Alphabet plans to take on OpenAI's ChatGPT > Introduced PaLM 2, our next generation large language model that has improved multilingual, reasoning and coding capabilities. > Hello Gemini