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Google DeepMind was founded in November 2010 by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and Mustafa Suleyman. Hassabis and Legg first met at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London. Google acquired the company on the 26th of January 2014 for a price reported to range between 400 million and 650 million dollars.
AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol, a 9-dan professional Go player, four games to one in a five-game match in March 2016. It was the first artificial intelligence to defeat a professional Go player; previously, computers had played Go only at amateur level. Go was considered far harder for computers than chess due to the vastly larger number of possible board positions.
AlphaFold won the 13th Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction in December 2018, correctly predicting the most accurate structure for 25 of 43 proteins. By 2020, its accuracy was regarded as comparable to laboratory techniques. By July 2022, predictions for more than 200 million proteins representing virtually all known proteins were released on the AlphaFold database.
Yes. In October 2024, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper received half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on protein structure prediction, citing the AlphaFold2 achievement.
In April 2016, a data-sharing agreement showed DeepMind Health had access to records of approximately 1.6 million patients at three London hospitals, including sensitive details such as HIV status and depression history. The Information Commissioner's Office ruled in July 2017 that the Royal Free hospital failed to comply with the Data Protection Act when handing over patient data. National Data Guardian Dame Fiona Caldicott stated in a leaked letter that the data-sharing had taken place on an inappropriate legal basis.
Gemini is a multimodal large language model released on the 6th of December 2023. It succeeded Google's LaMDA and PaLM 2 and launched in three sizes: Nano, Pro, and Ultra. Gemini 2.5, a reasoning model that pauses to think before responding, was released on the 25th of March 2025, and Gemini 3 Pro followed on the 18th of November 2025.