December 5, 2019 06:58 pm
Mustafa Suleyman co-founded DeepMind in 2010 with Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg. | Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images for TechCrunch
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/5/20997225/deepmind-co-founder-mustafa-suleyman-google-ai
DeepMind co-founder moves to Google as the AI lab positions itself for the future
Mustafa Suleyman co-founded DeepMind in 2010 with Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg. | Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images for TechCrunch
The personnel changes at Alphabet continue, this time with Mustafa Suleyman — one of the three co-founders of the company’s influential AI lab DeepMind — moving to Google.
Suleyman announced the news on Twitter, saying that after a “wonderful decade” at DeepMind, he would be joining Google to work with the company’s head of AI Jeff Dean and its chief legal officer Kent Walker. The exact details of Suleyman’s new role are unclear but a representative for the company told The Verge it would involve work on AI policy.
The move is notable, though, as it was reported 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 “time out...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/5/20997225/deepmind-co-founder-mustafa-suleyman-google-ai
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