{"id":99361,"date":"2019-12-05T14:03:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/deepmind-co-founder-moves-to-google-as-the-ai-lab-positions-itself-for-the-future"},"modified":"2019-12-05T14:03:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:03:04","slug":"deepmind-co-founder-moves-to-google-as-the-ai-lab-positions-itself-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/deepmind-co-founder-moves-to-google-as-the-ai-lab-positions-itself-for-the-future","title":{"rendered":"DeepMind co-founder moves to Google as the AI lab positions itself for the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/deepmind-co-founder-moves-to-google-as-the-ai-lab-positions-itself-for-the-future.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/12\/4\/20994896\/google-alphabet-ceo-sundar-pichai-era-culture-antitrust-regulation\">personnel changes<\/a> at Alphabet continue, this time with Mustafa Suleyman \u2014 one of the three co-founders of the company\u2019s influential AI lab DeepMind \u2014 moving to Google.<\/p>\n<p>Suleyman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mustafasuleymn\/status\/1202635124745154562\">announced<\/a> the news on Twitter, saying that after a \u201cwonderful decade\u201d at DeepMind, he would be joining Google to work with the company\u2019s head of AI Jeff Dean and its chief legal officer Kent Walker. The exact details of Suleyman\u2019s new role are unclear but a representative for the company told <em>The Verge<\/em> it would involve work on AI policy.<\/p>\n<p>The move is notable, though, as it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-08-21\/google-deepmind-co-founder-placed-on-leave-from-ai-lab\">reported<\/a> earlier this year that Suleyman had been placed on leave from DeepMind. (DeepMind disputed these reports, saying it was a mutual decision intended to give Suleyman \u201ctime out \u2026 after 10 hectic years.\u201d) Some speculated that Suleyman\u2019s move was the fallout of reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/deep-confusion-tensions-lingered-within-google-over-deepmind\">tensions<\/a> between DeepMind and Google, as the former struggled to commercialize its technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The personnel changes at Alphabet continue, this time with Mustafa Suleyman \u2014 one of the three co-founders of the company\u2019s influential AI lab DeepMind \u2014 moving to Google. Suleyman announced the news on Twitter, saying that after a \u201cwonderful decade\u201d at DeepMind, he would be joining Google to work with the company\u2019s head of AI [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-policy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}