(Original Title: DeepMind co-founder moves to Google as the AI lab positions itself for the future)

Netease Technology News on December 6, according to foreign media reports, with the resignation of Google's founder, Alphabet's personnel changes continue. Mustafa Suleyman, one of the three co-founders of Alphabet's artificial intelligence laboratory DeepMind, announced that he has joined Google, and he was responsible for DeepMind's health team.

Pictured: Mustafa Suleyman, one of the three co-founders of DeepMind

Suleiman announced the news on Twitter. He said he would join Google after DeepMind's "wonderful decade," working with Google's artificial intelligence chief Jeff Dean and chief legal officer Kent Walker. The details of Suleiman's new role at Google are unclear, but a representative of the company said that Suleiman is mainly engaged in artificial intelligence policy.

But this change is worth noting. It was reported earlier this year that Suleiman had been suspended by DeepMind. DeepMind refuted the reports at the time, saying that it was a joint decision between the two parties in order to give Suleiman "a rest after 10 years of busy life." Some have speculated that Suleiman's job adjustments were the result of reported tensions between DeepMind and Google, which have been having difficulty commercializing their technology.

Although DeepMind has achieved a series of fruitful results in the field of artificial intelligence, the most notable of which is the success of the AlphaGo project in 2016, the company has been losing money. In 2018, the company's revenue doubled year-on-year to US $ 135 million, but its expenditure also soared to US $ 618 million, and its total liabilities exceeded US $ 1.3 billion.

Suleiman co-founded DeepMind in 2010 with DeepMind's current CEO, Demis Hassabis, and current chief scientist Shane Legg. Suleiman was the head of the company's health team, and his team led the way to commercialize laboratory research. DeepMind's engineers have designed a series of groundbreaking health algorithms, and Suleiman's team has also developed an app for nurses and doctors that promises to save time and money. However, the project was also strongly criticized for improper handling of UK medical data and was eventually included in Google Health in 2018.

In addition, Suleiman also leads the "DeepMind for Google" team, which aims to apply the company's research to Google products and bring tangible business benefits, such as improving battery life of Android devices and Google Assistant generates more natural sounds.

There are currently no details about Suleiman's new position, so it is difficult to understand the reasons behind the change in Suleiman's position. But it is clear that DeepMind is still studying how to position himself in the future, and Hazabis mentioned this in a blog post.

In this article, Hazabis describes DeepMind's "development from an unlikely startup to a large scientific organization." Although he emphasized the cooperation between DeepMind Labs and other Alphabet departments, he finally focused on the "fundamental breakthroughs" and "major challenges" that DeepMind hopes to solve, especially the use of artificial intelligence to strengthen scientific research. Obviously, long-term research, not short-term profit, remains the top priority for DeepMind scientists. (Chen Chen)

Source: Netease Technology Report, translated by Google Translate

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