Google consolidates AI-focused DeepMind, Research teams

Google announced on Thursday that it will consolidate a pair of its internal teams that are focused on building artificial intelligence (AI) models.

Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote a blog post on the company’s website that explained the decision to consolidate teams that build AI models within the Google DeepMind team, including teams from the company’s Research division. Google DeepMind was created last year through the merger of the Google Brain team with DeepMind and other researchers focused on AI