Alphabet merged A.I.-focused groups. Brain and DeepMind

As the competition for artificial intelligence intensifies,

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Alphabet is joining forces with DeepMind to combine an internal Google Research team known as Brain.

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For an estimated $500 million, Google purchased DeepMind in 2014, and up until this point, it has been managed as a separate division out of the UK.

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One of Alphabet's "other bets," DeepMind, has been engaged in futuristic work,

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such as training computer systems to outperform the best Go players.

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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a blog post on Thursday that combining all of this talent into a single,

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well-focused team and giving them access to Google's computational power will significantly speed up our progress in AI.

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