Two can play this game. Even three, or four, or more.
It all began when OpenAI introduced ChatGPT, and that the world was wowed by what it can do. While end users couldn't be happier and amused by the generative large-language model AI, tech companies quickly scrambled for their own solutions. Some opt to partner with OpenAI in order to use ChatGPT, others create their own kind of generative AI.
Google is the latter.
While it botched at Google Bard's introduction, Google has made Bard a lot better along the way.
Now that it's focus in on AI, Google is going full force with the development of AI, that it merges its team at Google Brain, with DeepMind.
In an announcement by Demis Hassabis, CEO DeepMind, he said that:
"Now, we live in a time in which AI research and technology is advancing exponentially. In the coming years, AI - and ultimately AGI - has the potential to drive one of the greatest social, economic and scientific transformations in history."
What happened here is that, Google's CEO Sundar Pichai merges the team at Google Brain from Google Research with DeepMind to create "a single, focused unit" called Google DeepMind.
Hassabis added:
"Together, in close collaboration with our fantastic colleagues across the Google Product Areas, we have a real opportunity to deliver AI research and products that dramatically improve the lives of billions of people, transform industries, advance science, and serve diverse communities."
The London-based DeepMind was acquired by Google in 2014.
While DeepMind earlier products include the one that was taught teamwork by playing the game Quake III Arena, reached and become a grandmaster at the game StarCraft II, played and mastered the game Stratego, among others, its focus can be best described as an AI company that utilizes machine learning and systems for neuroscience to build powerful general-purpose learning algorithms.
Google Brain on the other hand, worked by combining open-ended machine learning research with information systems and large-scale computing resources.
Products include TensorFlow, which allow for neural networks to be used by the public, Imagen, which is an AI that can turn text into images, as well as as other projects.
The two have been separated in areas of expertise and by thousands of miles.
By merging them and creating Google DeepMind, Hassabis leads this division to develop even more advanced AI systems that are crucial to Google’s future success.
As for Jeff Dean, the head of Google Brain, becomes the division's chief scientist.