Google’s parent company Alphabet has two AI research wings – Google Brain and DeepMind – which have different philosophies and approaches towards AI. This has resulted in small feuds between them, but they are now stronger than ever. Recently, Jacob Devlin, a researcher from the Google AI team, left to join OpenAI, citing a violation of policy. Rumours of the two companies’ ideologies not sitting well together have been on since Alphabet’s acquisition of DeepMind in 2014. However, DeepMind has become profitable in 2021 and has been providing technical support to Google’s products. DeepMind’s reinforcement learning technology has enabled Google’s data centres to save more than 30% of energy, and its recommendation systems power Google Play and YouTube. Additionally, the Blueshift team of Google is working closely with DeepMind to further the parent company’s LLM capabilities.
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