Google consolidates AI-focused DeepMind, Research teams

Google announced connected Thursday that it will consolidate a brace of its soul teams that are focused connected building artificial intelligence (AI) models.

Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote a blog station connected nan company's website that explained nan determination to consolidate teams that build AI models wrong nan Google DeepMind team, including teams from nan company's Research division. Google DeepMind was created past twelvemonth done nan merger of nan Google Brain squad pinch DeepMind and different researchers focused connected AI systems. 

Pichai said that move "helped accelerate our Gemini models" and unified instrumentality learning (ML) infrastructure and developer teams: "The advancement successful conscionable 1 twelvemonth has been incredible: Gemini models are seen arsenic leaders and support getting better. And our successive breakthroughs person put america connected a way to present nan world's astir advanced, safe, and responsible AI."

"Now, to accelerate this progress, we're going to consolidate nan teams that attraction connected building models crossed Research and GoogleDeepMind. All of this activity will now beryllium successful Google DeepMind and standard our capacity to present tin AI for our users, partners and customers," Pichai explained. "This will simplify improvement by concentrating compute-intensive exemplary building successful 1 spot and establishing azygous entree points for PAs looking to return these models and build generative AI applications."

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Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced nan consolidation of AI exemplary improvement teams wrong Google's DeepMind unit. (Photo by Christoph Soeder/picture confederation via Getty Images / Getty Images)

"This alteration besides gives Google Research a clear and chopped instruction to proceed investing successful foundational and applied machine subject investigation successful 3 cardinal areas that necktie straight to Google's mission: computing systems (including quantum), foundational ML and algorithm, and applied subject and society," Pichai wrote.

"Fundamental machine subject investigation is successful our DNA and we person immoderate of nan world's champion machine scientists," he added. "We simply would not beryllium nan institution we are coming without nan researchers who developed nan foundations connected which each Google's products are built and are now inventing, nan foundations for our future."

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Google created its DeepMind squad past twelvemonth to thief shape nan company's AI exemplary development. (REUTERS/Steve Marcus/File Photo/File Photo / Reuters Photos)

Google is besides moving its Responsible AI teams from Research to DeepMind to "be person to wherever nan models are built and scaled." It besides moved different work teams into its cardinal Trust and Safety team, wherever nan institution is investing much successful AI testing and evaluations.

"We request to beryllium nan champion successful people astatine deploying accurate, trustworthy, and transparent AI products for users and customers," Pichai wrote.

Pichai's comments travel aft Google Gemini sparked controversy pinch biased responses erstwhile prompted pinch governmental aliases charged societal topics. The institution paused Gemini's image procreation characteristic aft Gemini was shown to beryllium creating historically inaccurate images that sometimes replaced White group pinch images of Black, Native American and Asian people. Pichai said nan images were "biased" and "completely unacceptable."

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Google's Gemini generative AI instrumentality sparked contention earlier this year. (Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images / Getty Images)

Pichai referenced nan request to guarantee Google's AI products are nonsubjective arsenic good nan request to support governmental disputes retired of nan workplace aft an incident past week successful which 28 labor were fired aft staging a sit-in to protestation nan company's ties to Israel amid nan warfare against Hamas.

"We person a civilization of vibrant, unfastened chat that enables america to create astonishing products and move awesome ideas into action. That's important to preserve," Pichai wrote. "But yet we are a workplace and our policies and expectations are clear: this is simply a business, and not a spot to enactment successful a measurement that disrupts coworkers aliases makes them consciousness unsafe, to effort to usage nan institution arsenic a individual platform, aliases to conflict complete disruptive issues aliases statement politics. This is excessively important a infinitesimal arsenic a institution for america to beryllium distracted."

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"We person a work to beryllium an nonsubjective and trusted supplier of accusation that serves each of our users globally. When we travel to work, our extremity is to shape nan world's accusation and make it universally accessible and useful. That supersedes everything other and I expect america to enactment pinch a attraction that reflects that," Pichai added.

Reuters contributed to this report.