Google bought developers of artificial intelligence
Google has bought London-based firm DeepMind Technologies, tells Re/code. The company applied research in the field of artificial intelligence.
On the website DeepMind, which consists of one page, tells how the company is developing training methods for General purpose", which are used in simulation, e-Commerce and games.
Re/code reports that DeepMind is well known among experts and is considered large by the standards of the field of artificial intelligence firm: it exists at least 3 years and there are more than fifty people.
Among the founders of the DeepMind includes Demis Hassabis (Demis Hassabis) - gaming proektirovshik, neuroscientist and chess player. Hassabis 5 times (more than anyone else) won the championship in intellectual games Pentamind.
Google approved the precedent purchase DeepMind, but did not disclose the deal amount. According to reliable information Re/code, the company had cost of Google in 400 million dollars. The Financial Times calls the amount of 495 million dollars, prescribing that DeepMind became the main European deal Google
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