Google has merged its Google Brain team into the DeepMind team, retaining the DeepMind name, and retaining the CEO of Google DeepMind, Demis Hassabis.

This group, called Google DeepMind, will bring together two leading research groups in the AI field: the Brain team from Google Research, and DeepMind. Their collective accomplishments in AI over the last decade span AlphaGo, Transformers, word2vec, WaveNet, AlphaFold, sequence to sequence models, distillation, deep reinforcement learning, and distributed systems and software frameworks like TensorFlow and JAX for expressing, training and deploying large scale ML models.

Combining all this talent into one focused team, backed by the computational resources of Google, will significantly accelerate our progress in AI.

[blog.google...]