Last Update: April 21, 2023, 06:25 AM IST
Google parent Alphabet recently decided to cut around 12,000 jobs or 6 percent of its workforce worldwide.
The new division will be led by DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and will be set up to “ensure the bold and responsible development of general AI.”
Alphabet Inc is combining Google Brain and DeepMind as it doubles down on artificial intelligence research in its race to compete with rival systems such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in a blog post on Thursday that the new division will be led by DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and that its establishment will ensure the “bold and responsible development of general AI.”
Alphabet said the teams being added have delivered a number of high-profile projects, including Transformers, the technology that became the basis for some of its OpenAI work.
Going forward, Alphabet employees will work on “multimodal” AI, like OpenAI’s latest model GPT-4, which can respond not only to text prompts but image inputs as well to generate new content.
Google has dominated the search market for decades with a share of more than 80 percent, but Wall Street fears the Alphabet unit could fall behind Microsoft Corp in the race for fast-moving AI. technology OpenAI, funded by Microsoft, powers the rival software maker’s updated Bing search engine.
Alphabet announced the launch of Bard in February to compete with ChatGPT. It lost $100 billion in value on February 8 after Bard shared false information in a promotional video and failed at an event for the company.
Alphabet’s shares were up 2 per cent on Thursday.
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