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What is DeepMind?

DeepMind Technologies Limited, doing business as Google DeepMind, is a British-American artificial intelligence research laboratory which serves as a subsidiary of Google.

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  • Neural network models
  • AlphaFold database
  • Reinforcement learning
  • Stable crystalline structures

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It was founded in the UK in 2010 by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and Mustafa Suleyman, and was acquired by Google in 2014. The company is based in London, with research centres in Canada, France, Germany, and the United States.

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DeepMind has made significant contributions to the field of artificial intelligence. It has created neural network models that learn how to play video games in a fashion similar to that of humans. In 2016, its AlphaGo program beat a human professional Go player Lee Sedol, a world champion, in a five-game match. 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.


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In 2020, DeepMind made significant advances in the problem of protein folding with AlphaFold. 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.

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DeepMind is also responsible for the development of Google's first multimodal generative AI chatbot, Gemini. The company merged with Google AI's Google Brain division to become Google DeepMind in April 2023. In November 2023, Google DeepMind announced an Open Source Graph Network for Materials Exploration (GNoME), the tool proposes millions of materials previously unknown to chemistry, including several hundred thousand stable crystalline structures.

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