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By Miles Kruppa
Alphabet Inc.'s Google merged its two main artificial-intelligence research units, a major reshuffling as tech companies jockey for leadership in an area quickly reshaping business.
Google said the new unit, Google DeepMind, would combine the existing Google Brain and DeepMind research groups into one team. The unit will be led by Demis Hassabis, the co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, which Google purchased for about $500 million in 2014.
Jeff Dean, the previous head of Google Research overseeing the Google Brain team, will move to a new role as Chief Scientist. Google said he would lead the company's "most critical and strategic technical projects related to AI," including a new series of powerful AI programs.
"Combining all this talent into one focused team, backed by the computational resources of Google, will significantly accelerate our progress in AI," Google CEO Sundar Pichai said Thursday in a blog post.
Tech companies including Google and Microsoft Corp.-backed OpenAI, the creator of the popular chatbot ChatGPT, have been racing to build increasingly large AI algorithms known as large language models. Those programs have shown promise performing a wide range of tasks, such as summarizing complex documents and conducting human-like conversations.
Google pioneered some of the technology that paved the way for recent developments in such models, but largely held back from wide public release of its most powerful image- and text-generation programs, citing the need to test the tools for accuracy and signs of bias.
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