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Google DeepMind

Frontier Lab

Also known as: DeepMind, DeepMind Technologies, Google DeepMind

Founded Sep 2010 (15 years old) by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and Mustafa Suleyman

Google DeepMind was formed in April 2023 from the merger of DeepMind and Google Brain, uniting Google's two major AI research organizations. The combined entity represents one of the world's most formidable AI research labs, with landmark achievements including AlphaGo (defeating world champions at Go), AlphaFold (solving protein folding), and G...

Headcount
2,700
as of Dec 2024
Key People
3
4 total tracked
AI Models
6

Model Releases

6
Dec 2024
Gemini 2.0

Next-generation Gemini with improved agentic capabilities

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Feb 2024
Gemini 1.5

Introduced 1M token context window; mixture-of-experts architecture

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Dec 2023
Gemini 1.0

Google's first natively multimodal model family (Ultra, Pro, Nano)

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Nov 2020
AlphaFold 2

Solved protein structure prediction; accuracy comparable to experimental methods

nature.com (opens in new tab)
Dec 2018
AlphaFold

Won CASP13 protein structure prediction competition

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Jan 2016
AlphaGo

First AI to defeat a professional Go player; beat Lee Sedol 4-1 in March 2016

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Safety Milestones

3
Frontier Safety FrameworkPolicy UpdateMay 2024

Framework for evaluating and mitigating risks from frontier AI models

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Dangerous Capability EvaluationsSafety EvalOct 2023

Systematic evaluations for dangerous capabilities in frontier models

arxiv.org (opens in new tab)
Specification Gaming ResearchResearch PaperApr 2020

Catalogued examples of AI systems exploiting reward misspecification

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Strategic Partnerships

3
Google BrainmergerApr 2023
DeepMind merged with Google Brain to form Google DeepMind; Jeff Dean became Chief Scientist of Google DeepMind and Google Research
blog.google (opens in new tab)
Isomorphic Labsspin-offNov 2021
Drug discovery spin-off from DeepMind, led by Demis Hassabis; leverages AlphaFold technology
isomorphiclabs.com (opens in new tab)
Google (Alphabet)acquisitionJan 2014
Investment: $500 million
Acquired by Google for approximately $500M; conditions included creation of AI ethics board
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Other Data

Major research initiatives and focus areas.
4 entries
NameDescriptionTeam SizeStarted
AI SafetyResponsible AI development including alignment, robustness, and societal impactJan 2017
Protein Structure PredictionDeep learning for predicting 3D protein structures from amino acid sequencesJan 2016
Game-Playing AIReinforcement learning for complex games including Go, chess, StarCraft, and DiplomacyJan 2013
Neuroscience-Inspired AIUsing insights from neuroscience to improve AI architectures and learning algorithmsSep 2010

Key People

4
Pushmeet Kohli
VP of Research
2017 – present
Leads research across science, safety, and foundational AI
Co-founder & CEO
Sep 2010 – present
CEO since founding; became head of Google DeepMind after 2023 Brain merger; 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold
Shane LeggFounder
Co-founder & Chief AGI Scientist
Sep 2010 – present
Leads AGI safety research; PhD on machine super intelligence
Mustafa SuleymanFounder
Co-founder & Head of Applied AI
Sep 2010 – Jan 2022
Left DeepMind in 2022; co-founded Inflection AI, then joined Microsoft as EVP and CEO of Microsoft AI in 2024

Facts8

Financial
Headcount2,700
Organization
Founded DateSep 2010
HeadquartersLondon, UK
Legal StructureSubsidiary of Alphabet Inc.
Safety & Research
Safety Researchers120
People
Founded ByDemis Hassabis, Shane Legg, mustafa-suleyman
Model
Context Window2 million
General
Websitehttps://deepmind.google/
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AI Models (6)

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ModelReleasedPricing (in/out)Context
Gemini 2.5 FlashMay 2025$0.15 / $0.61M tokens
Gemini 2.5 ProMar 2025$1.25 / $101M tokens
Gemini 2.0 FlashDec 2024$0.1 / $0.41M tokens
Gemini 1.5 FlashMay 2024$0.075 / $0.31M tokens
Gemini 1.5 ProFeb 2024$1.25 / $52M tokens
Gemini 1.0 UltraFeb 2024128K tokens