AI push sees Alphabet’s Google saying it’ll consolidate its AI groups in its Analysis and DeepMind divisions
Alphabet’s Google division is as soon as once more consolidating its AI experience, because the search engine large continues to compete towards Microsoft and OpenAI, in addition to different AI service suppliers.
In a weblog submit on Thursday, CEO Sundar Pichai stated Google will consolidate groups that concentrate on constructing synthetic intelligence fashions throughout its Analysis and DeepMind divisions.
It comes precisely a 12 months after Google in April 2023 had introduced that it was merging its inside AI analysis group (Google Mind) with UK-based DeepMind, which it had acquired in 2014 for $500m.
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That 2023 transfer was designed to sharpen Google’s give attention to AI growth, and signalled the top of DeepMind’s existence as an impartial unit of Google, working out of the UK as one in all Alphabet’s “different bets” initiatives.
It ought to be famous that DeepMind had additionally begun working out of Google’s Mountain View headquarters again in 2016.
The DeepMind group helped develop Google’s most superior synthetic intelligence mannequin, Gemini, which was unveiled late final 12 months (as Google Bard) and might crunch completely different types of data similar to video, audio and textual content.
“Final 12 months we created Google DeepMind, bringing collectively the Google Mind group, DeepMind, and different researchers particularly targeted on creating more and more succesful and common AI methods,” wrote Pichai.
“The progress in only one 12 months has been unimaginable…” wrote Pichai. “Now, to speed up this progress, we’re going to consolidate the groups that concentrate on constructing fashions throughout Analysis and Google DeepMind. All of this work will now sit in Google DeepMind and scale our capability to ship succesful AI for our customers, companions and prospects.”
Structural adjustments
Particularly Pichai famous that Google will perform the next structural adjustments:
Transfer Accountable AI groups in Analysis to Google DeepMind, to be nearer to the place the fashions are constructed and scaled.
It has already moved different duty groups into Google’s central Belief and Security group, the place it’s investing extra in AI testing and evals.
These shifts create clearer duty and accountability at each degree as we construct and deploy, and strengthen the suggestions loop between fashions, merchandise, and customers.
Google’s consolidation comes amid rising world considerations about AI security and rising requires regulation of the expertise.
Google has additionally been finishing up a number of rounds of job cuts and price reductions over the previous 14 months, which has resulted in hundreds of job losses.
