Alphabet subsidiaryFounded 2010🇬🇧London, United KingdomCEO Koray Kavukcuoglu (SVP, day-to-day operations & Gemini roadmap, reporting to Sundar Pichai); Demis Hassabis moved to Chair of Google DeepMind & Alphabet Chief Scientist on Aug 5, 2026
Google DeepMind is Alphabet's consolidated artificial-intelligence research lab, formed in April 2023 by merging the original DeepMind (founded in London in 2010, acquired by Google in 2014) with Google Brain.
Co-founder and Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis stepped down as CEO on August 5, 2026, moving to Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet to focus on long-term AGI research and Isomorphic Labs; Koray Kavukcuoglu, an SVP reporting directly to Sundar Pichai, now runs day-to-day operations and the Gemini roadmap. The lab builds the Gemini family, which powers the Gemini app (1B+ monthly active users as of August 11, 2026), Google Search's AI Mode and AI Overviews, Google Cloud, and, via a 2026 partnership, Apple's next-generation Siri. Gemini 4 Argon (model id gemini-4-argon) opened on October 13, 2026 to the paid Gemini API, Gemini for business, Google AI Ultra, and Google AI Pro subscribers in the Gemini app and AI Mode. The introductory API price is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens through November 30, 2026, then $4 and $20; API docs say Argon is not on the free tier or the Google AI Pro plan. On October 28, 2026 Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon at the same introductory $2 and $10 prices. The later price is $4 and $20 per million tokens, and the post does not say when that introductory period ends. Access this week is limited to a subset of cyber defenders in the Fairwind Program. Developer, business, and consumer access is not open. A company spokesperson told Channel NewsAsia, in a Sept. 30 report, that Google no longer plans to release Gemini 3.5 Pro. Reuters carried the same spokesperson statement, and Bloomberg reported the same day that people familiar said Google had abandoned the model. Gemini 3.8 Flash remains the high-volume workhorse. Isomorphic Labs' September 29, 2026 update describes preclinical work and gearing up for the clinic, with no named candidate and no listed first-in-human study. On October 30, 2026 Google said the Suncatcher prototype downlinked a Gemma 4 response over Svalbard after the TPU trays were powered. Thermal and radiation tests are still ahead, so that hello-world is not a published Trillium health dataset. Google names twin interconnected satellites in 2027 as the next milestone. DeepMind's October 31 post says pilots in Barnet, Camden, and Dorset cut average officer time on householder assessment tasks by 58 percent and gives no application count. The housing ministry's October 30 release links that 58 percent task cut to halving routine householder processing from eight weeks to four. Those are related claims, not one measured sample. On Oct. 28, 2026 Google opened orders for XREAL AURA, wired Android XR glasses, from USD 1,099 in the U.S., Canada, and Korea, with shipments beginning in mid-November. The Samsung, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker audio glasses from the I/O fall window were not confirmed as shipped. Google Gemini help, read Oct. 29, says the subscriber beta called Spark was renamed Task and requires Google AI Pro or Ultra.
Fold Project Astra's real-time perception, memory and tool-use research into shipping surfaces rather than a standalone product: Gemini Live in the Gemini app (now including Gemini 3.8 Live, shipped Sept 15, 2026), the agentic Gemini Spark assistant (initially AI Ultra-subscriber exclusive), and Android XR smart glasses (audio-only and display variants developed with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker), which Google and Samsung targeted for a Fall 2026 launch at I/O 2026. Samsung's August 3, 2026 Galaxy Unpacked still pointed to a fall launch in select markets with no exact date or price. As of Sept 17, 2026 the Fall 2026 window is unchanged, with pricing (expected in the $600-900 range) and an exact launch date still undisclosed.
Advance the first AI-designed drug candidates from the IsoDDE/AlphaFold pipeline into first-in-human clinical trials, beginning with oncology - a milestone Hassabis said at Davos in January 2026 had slipped from an original end-2025 target to end of 2026. As of September 14, 2026 no patient has been publicly reported dosed with an Isomorphic-designed compound; president Colin Murdoch has said the company is staffing up and getting very close to dosing patients, with the ~$2.1B Series B (May 2026) funding the preclinical work needed before an IND filing.
Turn Demis Hassabis's July 14, 2026 proposal - a U.S.-led, FINRA-style body under which frontier labs would voluntarily submit models up to 30 days pre-release for cyber, bio and deception-capability testing, overseen by a majority-independent board including Turing Award winners - into an operational institution, which he argues should launch before year-end. Reporting on August 13, 2026 said Hassabis has spent months privately lobbying Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and White House AI/crypto czar David Sacks's office (via tech adviser Michael Kratsios) on the plan, which is now under review by White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, with the Trump administration reportedly weighing a similar self-regulatory body of its own; Sam Altman and Elon Musk have both called the proposal a reasonable starting point. On September 16, 2026 co-founder Shane Legg launched the DeepMind Institute on AGI implications, with Hassabis and Google's James Manyika as directors; one of the opening essays restates the US-led standards-body plan, and Legg told the Financial Times that Amodei's pacing proposal was directionally interesting and that he remains comfortable with a 50 percent chance of minimal AGI by 2028. The proposal remains US-anchored with global-reach scope rather than a multilateral international body. No public operational launch as of Sept 19, 2026.
Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash (and 3.7 Flash) introductory API price of $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens expires on December 31, 2026. From January 1, 2027 the listed regular rate is $1.50 / $7.50. The listed workhorse remains 3.8 Flash while 3.5 Pro is still labeled coming soon.
Advance Google's next frontier model generation, Gemini 4, which began its most ambitious pre-training run yet on July 21, 2026 and runs on Google's Ironwood TPUs. Sundar Pichai told analysts on the Q2 2026 earnings call that Gemini 4 needs a larger base model to compete at the frontier, with coding and autonomous agents as stated priorities. As of September 14, 2026 Google has still not confirmed a release date or pre-training completion; Kavukcuoglu said in early September the run is going well, without a window. Outside estimates citing Google's past roughly six-month release cadence continue to point to a possible late-2026 window, but post-training, safety evaluation and product testing could push public availability into 2027.
Extend Gemini Omni and the Veo/Genie world-model stack toward richer physical simulation, while pursuing the next Gemini generation (Gemini 4, in pre-training since July 21, 2026) on Google's Ironwood TPUs - with Hassabis projecting AGI around 2030 (possibly 2029). Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash went generally available on August 27, 2026 with 4K finishing and scene extension, and Gemini 3.8 Live shipped September 15, 2026 as a real-time audiovisual dialogue surface. An August 10, 2026 Fortune investigation into the causes of Hassabis's step-back as CEO cited low morale, a multi-year talent exodus and repeated model delays as headwinds to that roadmap; DeepMind has since also moved a roughly 90-person AI-responsibility (frontier-risk) team out to Google's Global Affairs organization (effective early September 2026) and begun piloting double-blind third-party evaluations of a Gemini Flash Lite model (announced Aug 27, 2026) as the lab reorganizes around Koray Kavukcuoglu.
Open AlphaGenome Atlas to commercial Google Cloud users
TargetSoon after Sept 2026
After launching AlphaGenome Atlas on September 8, 2026 as a free academic resource covering about 9 billion DNA variants, DeepMind said commercial access would follow on Google Cloud. Watch whether the Cloud product ships with the same AVI scores, motif maps and API as the research portal.
Google said on Nov. 11 that the Gemini Decisions API, powered by a new Gemini Decision 1 model, is available through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio. One request can score up to 1,000 yes/no, multiple-choice, or rubric questions in a single pass over text, images, audio, video, or PDFs. Google lists a price of $0.10 per million input tokens, with no output tokens billed, and says typical end-to-end latency is 150 to 250 milliseconds.
Google DeepMind said on Nov. 11 that AlphaGenome 2 predicts how a DNA sequence and its variants affect one cell type or cell state at a time, instead of averaging across a tissue. The lab said the model, trained on more than 107 million individual cell profiles, identified 30 percent of causal variants in the TenK10K immune-cell set, compared with 16 percent for the prior model fine-tuned on single-cell data. It is available for non-commercial research through the AlphaGenome API, with a private preview for commercial research, and DeepMind says it is not validated for clinical or diagnostic use.
On Nov. 10, Google DeepMind said AlphaProof Code used Gemini Carbon agents to produce machine-checked Lean proofs for compiled libsignal, the Signal protocol's reference implementation. The technical paper says the proofs are about 6.5 million lines and cover the PQXDH handshake and Triple Ratchet for forward secrecy, authentication, post-compromise security, and handshake secrecy. They apply to unmodified libsignal linked into a command-line harness and compiled with stock rustc to AArch64, with some cryptographic routines specified by contracts, not to every installed Signal app. DeepMind says two previously fixed bugs, when put back into an isolated copy, produced proofs that those binaries were insecure. The paper's first-proofs wording is the authors' claim.
On Nov. 10, 2026 Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics 2.5, a vision-language-action model it is rolling out to robotics partners. In a proof of concept, Apptronik's Apollo 2 sorted metal brackets on Mercedes-Benz lines in Kecskemét, Hungary, and Sindelfingen, Germany, and DeepMind reported a 96 percent success rate without defining the denominator. DeepMind also says lab tasks succeeded 30 to 100 percent more often than its previous baseline and finished 20 to 30 percent faster.
On Nov. 10, 2026 Google made Gemini 4 Carbon available to paying developers and enterprises through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Gemini for business, at an introductory $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, rising to $4 and $20 after Nov. 30 for the public model. Google AI Ultra subscribers are getting it in the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search, and Google Antigravity. The Verge reports that Google has not said whether free or lower-priced subscribers will receive it.
On Nov. 5, 2026 the Frontier Model Forum released version 1.0 of a framework that rates one successful cyber jailbreak on capability gain, capability scope, ease of deployment, and ease of discovery, then maps those scores to bands from Negligible to Critical. Amazon, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and OpenAI each said they contributed. The forum says the tiers are a starting point rather than operational guidance, comments are open through Dec. 21, and feedback from NIST, the NSA, and UK cyber bodies does not imply endorsement.
Google made Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available on Nov. 5 on the Gemini API, Gemini for business, and Google Cloud. Native clips run up to 15 seconds, from 10 seconds on Omni 1.1, and 720p video is priced at $0.07 per second, 30 percent below Omni 1.1. Audio references are allowlisted, the Gemini app rollout is to Google AI Ultra subscribers, and Google Cloud says video creation inside the Gemini chat is still coming.
Google DeepMind said on Oct. 31 that PlanAssist is moving into a 12-month beta with 12 more English councils, 15 in total, after pilots in Barnet, Camden, and Dorset. DeepMind said those pilots cut average officer time on householder assessment tasks by 58 percent, and that officers approved more than 70 percent of the drafted reports with no edits. The UK housing ministry published the expansion on Oct. 30, named the 12 councils, said the tool will not be mandated, and said an offer to every English council by the end of 2027 depends on the beta. Officers remain responsible for every decision.
Google said on Oct. 30 that its Project Suncatcher prototype, launched on Oct. 1, returned a first response from a data-center-class TPU in orbit. During a ground pass over Svalbard, an onboard Gemma 4 model answered a prompt for a space haiku, and the team also tried limericks and telemetry prompts. Google said later tests will cover heat and radiation, and that its next milestone is twin interconnected satellites in 2027.
Google said on Oct. 28, 2026 that Gemini 4 Carbon is its next frontier model, at introductory prices of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, the same introductory rates as Gemini 4 Argon. Access this week is limited to a subset of cyber defenders in the Fairwind Program while a U.S. government voluntary pre-release review continues, and the later price of $4 and $20 per million tokens has no published end date for the introductory period. Google reports a score of 59 and first place on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0, plus 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro, 54.8% on ExploitGym, and 71.0% on CWE-bench.
Google DeepMind on Oct. 27, 2026 released Genie 4, a world model with native audio and text steering during a running scene, as a research preview for trusted testers. A later release is planned for Google AI Ultra subscribers in Project Genie and for early-access Gemini API and AI Studio partners. DeepMind said Gemini 3.8 Flash breaks goals into steps and that object permanence, legible text, and audio accuracy can still drift; TechCrunch reported a two-minute limit from a briefing that the DeepMind post does not state.
OpenAI said on Oct. 21 that a Calif researcher used GPT-5.6 Sol to identify a critical PHP flaw, while Wiz independently reported both vulnerabilities and says its Aug. 19 discovery also used Gemini 4 Argon. PHP released 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 the same day for CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, which it says allow unauthenticated remote code execution, and said updating is the only complete fix. OpenAI says the bugs are among several it has found and that it has committed $1 billion in subsidized Daybreak access for frontline defenders.
Google DeepMind researchers reported on 15 October 2026 that four Gemini 4 Argon agents defeated Minecraft's Ender Dragon in 27 hours and 14 minutes on one random Easy-difficulty world, writing 2,783 programs and dying 605 times, with no human intervention during the run. The agents played through Mineflayer code, which the paper says reveals blocks a player cannot see and plans routes, rather than through pixels and a keyboard. The authors call it a single run, estimate about $520 in introductory list-price tokens up to the win, and note two earlier community dragon kills that used different tools or an easier setup.
On Oct. 15, 2026 Google DeepMind said biologists using its Antigravity workbench identified a 97-amino-acid bacteriocin candidate, UniProt A0A0U0D591, from Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae. The company said sequence, structure and genomic-neighborhood checks support that reading, and that this candidate and others from the same pipeline are in wet-lab validation. The post does not report measured antimicrobial activity.
On Oct. 14, 2026 Google DeepMind and Google Cloud said they will give up to 200 European scientific researchers direct access to frontier models and $3 million in compute credits through the EU RAISE initiative. The blog names AlphaFold 3, WeatherNext, AlphaGenome, AlphaEvolve, and AlphaEarth Foundations. It does not say how researchers are chosen, when access starts, or how the credits are divided.
The Information separately reported ~5,600 in Aug 2026
Est. annual revenue
No standalone P&L
Gemini App Monthly Active Users
1B+
(disclosed Aug 11, 2026, up from 950M+ at Q2 2026 earnings on Jul 22); daily active users tripled over the past year - still the freshest official figure as of Sept 17, 2026, ahead of Alphabet's Q3 2026 report
AI Overviews / AI Mode Reach
2.5B+ MAU
(AI Overviews); 1B+ MAU (AI Mode, ~1 year after launch) - both figures disclosed at Google I/O in May 2026 remain the freshest official disclosure as of Sept 17, 2026
Monthly Tokens Processed
3.2 quadrillion+ tokens/month across all Google surfaces (I/O 2026, 7x YoY); 22B tokens/minute processed via model APIs as of Q2 2026 earnings (Jul 22, 2026), up from 16B/minute the prior quarter - still the latest disclosure as of Sept 17, 2026, ahead of Alphabet's Q3 2026 report
AlphaFold Researchers
3M+ across 190 countries
200M+ structures (AlphaFold Server and Protein Structure Database remain live as of Sept 14, 2026 despite the July 2026 dissolution of the dedicated AlphaFold research team)
Nobel Prize
2024 Chemistry
(Hassabis & Jumper, AlphaFold2 protein-structure prediction; shared with David Baker for computational protein design). Re-verified Sept 14, 2026 against the Nobel Foundation press release; still the lab's only Nobel. Jumper left DeepMind for Anthropic in June 2026; Hassabis remains Chair of Google DeepMind and Alphabet Chief Scientist.
Employees
~6,000
(DeepMind headcount per PitchBook; The Information separately reported ~5,600 in Aug 2026, up from 2,500 two years earlier); no single official DeepMind figure disclosed, and no fresher third-party estimate found as of Sept 17, 2026. Parent Alphabet's total headcount reached 198,933 as of Jun 30, 2026, up ~11,830 YoY
Current Flagship Model
Gemini 4 Argon
(gemini-4-argon) opened Oct. 13, 2026 as the public frontier model: paid API introductory $2/$10 per million tokens through Nov. 30, 2026, then $4/$20; not on the free tier or Google AI Pro API plan; Pro and Ultra subscribers get it in the Gemini app and AI Mode. Gemini 3.8 Flash remains the high-volume workhorse (shipped Sept. 2, 2026). Reuters and Bloomberg reported on Sept. 30, 2026 that Google no longer plans to release Gemini 3.5 Pro. DeepMind's Pro page presents Gemini 3.1 Pro.
Alphabet market cap (parent)
About $4.21T as of September 25, 2026 close
Alphabet market cap (parent)
About $4.19T as of 28 Sep 2026 close
Alphabet market cap (parent)
About $4.20T as of 2 Oct 2026 close
PlanAssist pilot time cut
58 percent average cut in officer time on householder assessment tasks in Barnet, Camden, and Dorset
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Operations & revenue
Operating status
Omni 1.2 Flash generally available; PlanAssist beta continues
On Nov. 5, 2026 Google made Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available on the Gemini API, Gemini for business, and Google Cloud. Native clips run up to 15 seconds, from 10 seconds on Omni 1.1, at $0.07 per second for 720p, 30 percent below Omni 1.1. Audio references are allowlisted. The Gemini app rollout is to Google AI Ultra subscribers, and the Cloud post says video creation inside the Gemini chat is still coming. On Oct. 31, 2026 DeepMind said PlanAssist is in a 12-month beta at 15 English councils. The 58 percent time cut and the share of unedited reports are the company's pilot figures. The ministry's claim that routine processing fell from eight weeks to four is a separate description of those early tests, and a nationwide offer by the end of 2027 is conditional on the beta. A Google spokesperson, quoted by CNA in a 30 Sept report updated 1 Oct 2026, said Google no longer plans to release Gemini 3.5 Pro. That next step is adopted here and still needs a missed resolution, because its description cannot be edited in the adoption. The 13 Oct Argon post says the rest of the Gemini 4 family is still to come, with no date. The 14 Oct RAISE pledge and the 15 Oct Commission enablers page still do not say who selects the up to 200 researchers, when access starts, or how the $3 million is divided. The 15 Oct bacteriocin post still puts UniProt A0A0U0D591 and other candidates in wet-lab validation, with no measured activity. The Minecraft paper does not publish a world seed, and the DeepMind news index has no companion post.
Revenue streams
Gemini API & Google Cloud (Vertex AI)
Usage-based access to the Gemini model family for developers and enterprises via the Gemini API, Google AI Studio and Vertex AI - a primary driver of Google Cloud, whose GenAI-model revenue grew nearly 800% YoY into Q1 2026.
Gemini consumer subscriptions (Google AI Pro / Ultra)
Paid consumer tiers bundled into Google One AI plans (Google AI Pro and Ultra) that unlock higher limits and the most capable Gemini models across the Gemini app, NotebookLM and Workspace.
Gemini in Search, Workspace & Android
Gemini powers Google's largest products - AI Mode and AI Overviews in Search, Workspace features, and Android/Pixel - reinforcing Alphabet's core advertising and device businesses rather than billing directly.
Model licensing & partnerships (incl. Isomorphic)
Platform partnerships such as powering Apple's next-generation Siri, plus pharma collaborations run through the Isomorphic Labs spinout (Eli Lilly and Novartis deals valued near $3B) that apply DeepMind science to drug discovery.
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Delivery record
How often Google DeepMind did what it said, when it said.
1 of 2dated milestones done on time
1 On time
0 Done late
1 Missed
1 done, no date set
1 moved, no outcome
One milestone counts once however often it moved. Scheduled events never count. Compare companies
Moved
Publish Suncatcher in-orbit Trillium TPU health
First target Coming weeks after 1 Oct 2026 · Moved 30 Oct 2026 · still open
The 30 October post downlinked a Gemma 4 response after the TPU trays were powered. It says thermal and radiation tests are still ahead and does not publish a Trillium health dataset.
Open Gemini 4 Argon to paid API and Google AI Ultra
First target No public date (after Fairwind) · Resolved 13 Oct 2026
Google opened Gemini 4 Argon on Oct. 13, 2026 to the paid API (model id gemini-4-argon), Gemini for business, Google AI Ultra, and Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app and AI Mode. Introductory price is $2/$10 per million tokens through Nov. 30, 2026. API docs exclude the free tier and the Google AI Pro plan. The Oct. 13 safety post and model card are published.
Fly Suncatcher TPU prototype on SpaceX Transporter-18
First target 1 Oct 2026 · Resolved 1 Oct 2026
SpaceX Transporter-18 launched 1 Oct 2026. Google Research confirmed the Planet-built Suncatcher prototype reached orbit, made contact, and was operating as expected. Detailed Trillium TPU health remains a later in-orbit data collection.
Missed. Channel NewsAsia, in a Sept. 30, 2026 report, quotes a company spokesperson: Google no longer plans to release Gemini 3.5 Pro, which Sundar Pichai originally said would be released in June. The milestone description still says the model is coming soon and cannot be edited.
Google opened the Gemini Decisions API and Gemini Decision 1 on Nov. 11, 2026, in Google AI Studio, priced at $0.10 per million input tokens with no output-token charge.
Releases AlphaGenome 2
DeepMind released AlphaGenome 2 on Nov. 11, 2026, for non-commercial research through the AlphaGenome API, with a private commercial preview. The lab says it identified 30 percent of TenK10K causal variants, versus 16 percent for the prior single-cell model.
Introduces AlphaProof Code for Signal's libsignal
On Nov. 10, 2026 DeepMind said Gemini Carbon agents produced machine-checked Lean proofs of libsignal security properties. The paper puts the proofs at about 6.5 million lines, covering PQXDH and the Triple Ratchet for forward secrecy, authentication, post-compromise security, and handshake secrecy. The binary is a command-line harness compiled with stock rustc to AArch64, not every installed Signal app. Two previously fixed bugs, when reintroduced, were proved insecure. The first-proofs wording is the paper's claim.
Introduces Gemini Robotics 2.5
On Nov. 10, 2026 DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics 2.5, a vision-language-action model rolling out to robotics partners. In a proof of concept, Apptronik Apollo 2 robots sorted metal brackets on Mercedes-Benz lines in Kecskemét, Hungary, and Sindelfingen, Germany. DeepMind reported a 96 percent success rate and did not define the denominator. It also said lab success was 30 to 100 percent higher than the previous baseline and 20 to 30 percent faster. The acknowledgement names Agile, Apptronik, and Mercedes-Benz.
Opens Gemini 4 Carbon to paid API users and Ultra subscribers
On Nov. 10, 2026 Google made Gemini 4 Carbon available to paying developers and enterprises through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Gemini for business, at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. The post says the public model price becomes $4 and $20 per million tokens after Nov. 30, 2026. Google AI Ultra subscribers are getting it in the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search, and Google Antigravity. Google Cloud lists model id gemini-4-carbon. The Verge says Google has not said whether free or lower-priced plans will receive it.
Warby Parker sets Intelligent Eyewear preorders for Nov. 12
Warby Parker's Nov. 5, 2026 earnings release quotes co-CEO Dave Gilboa: preorders for its first Intelligent Eyewear collection begin Nov. 12, and the company looks forward to delivering customer orders during the holiday season. The release does not say any glasses have shipped, and it gives no price. Samsung and Gentle Monster shipment was not confirmed on a company page this pass.
DeepMind contributes to the FMF cyber-jailbreak framework
On Nov. 5, 2026 the Frontier Model Forum released Version 1.0 of its Jailbreak Rating Framework for Frontier Cyber Threats. Owen Larter, senior director and head of frontier policy at Google DeepMind, said DeepMind contributed to this initial version. Public comments run through Dec. 21, 2026. The release does not score a DeepMind model or set a remediation rule.
Makes Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available
On Nov. 5, 2026 Google made Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available on the Gemini API, Gemini for business, and Google Cloud. Native clips run up to 15 seconds, from 10 seconds on Omni 1.1, at $0.07 per second for 720p, 30 percent below Omni 1.1. Audio references are allowlisted, the Gemini app rollout is to Google AI Ultra subscribers, and the Cloud post says in-chat creation is still coming.
2026
Starts a 15-council PlanAssist beta
On Oct. 31, 2026 DeepMind said PlanAssist moved from pilots in Barnet, Camden, and Dorset into a 12-month beta with 12 more English councils. It said average officer time on householder assessment tasks fell 58 percent and that officers approved more than 70 percent of drafted reports without edits. The housing ministry's Oct. 30 release names the added councils, says the tool is not mandated, and says an England-wide offer by the end of 2027 depends on the beta. Officers keep each decision.
Gemma 4 answers from the Suncatcher satellite
On Oct. 30, 2026 Google said Gemma 4, running on the Project Suncatcher prototype, produced the first downlinked model response during a pass over Svalbard.
Gemini help page lists Spark as Task for Pro and Ultra
Google's Gemini Apps help page, read Oct. 29, 2026, says the subscriber beta tested since May as Spark was renamed Task. Tasks require age 18 or over, a personal Google account, Keep Activity, Personal Intelligence, and Google AI Pro or Ultra. They are unavailable in the European Economic Area, Nigeria, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The page does not date the rename. The Fall 2026 Project Astra step still describes Spark as Ultra-only, and that description cannot be edited.
Opens orders for XREAL AURA Android XR glasses
On Oct. 28, 2026 Google said XREAL AURA, the first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR, was available to order in the U.S., Canada, and Korea, and from Nov. 2 in Japan. Launch pricing starts at USD 1,099 through the end of the year, with shipments beginning in mid-November. The glasses use Gemini. This order opening is not a shipment of the Samsung, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker audio glasses targeted for fall 2026.
Announces Gemini 4 Carbon for a limited preview
On Oct. 28, 2026 Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon at introductory prices of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, matching Argon, with later prices of $4 and $20. The post does not say when the introductory period ends. Access this week is limited to a subset of cyber defenders in the Fairwind Program while a U.S. voluntary pre-release review continues. Google reports index and cybersecurity benchmark scores that this entry does not treat as an independent audit.
Releases Genie 4 as a research preview
On Oct. 27, 2026 DeepMind released Genie 4 to trusted testers. It generates native audio and can be steered with text during a scene. A later release is planned for Google AI Ultra in Project Genie and for early-access Gemini API and AI Studio partners. Gemini 3.8 Flash is the step-planning agent. DeepMind says object permanence and audio can still drift. TechCrunch's two-minute figure is from a briefing and is not in the post.
Gemini 4 Argon assisted Wiz on two PHP CVEs
On Oct. 21, 2026 a Google Cloud post by Chris Betz and Raluca Ada Popa, DeepMind's Gemini security lead, said Wiz used a mix of models on two core PHP flaws, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. It says Gemini 4 Argon contributed to finding the vulnerability, exploit development, attack detection, and validation of the patch. It does not say Argon discovered the CVEs alone. No DeepMind-hosted blog of the incident was found on Oct. 29. PHP shipped fixes the same day.
Minecraft paper prints no seed and no DeepMind blog
The arXiv HTML of 2610.22319, read 21 Oct 2026, says four Gemini 4 Argon agents started from a randomly generated Easy world and used no pre-scouted seed. It does not print a numeric world seed or a DeepMind-hosted run log. DeepMind's news index the same day lists the 15 Oct antimicrobial post and Argon items, and does not list a Minecraft post.
On 15 Oct 2026 the European Commission said the RAISE AI in Science Enablers initiative launched at the European AI in Science Summit in Dublin. Its Google row repeats a pledge of $3 million in Google Cloud credits or tokens and direct access to DeepMind frontier scientific models. Google's 14 Oct post still says up to 200 researchers and $3 million, and names AlphaFold 3, WeatherNext, AlphaGenome, AlphaEvolve, and AlphaEarth Foundations. Neither page says who selects the researchers, when access starts, or how the credits are divided. The Dublin launch is the enablers initiative, not a statement that researcher access has opened.
Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft
A 15 Oct 2026 paper says four agents defeated the Ender Dragon in 27 hours and 14 minutes on one random Easy-difficulty world, writing 2,783 programs through Mineflayer rather than pixels. The authors call it a single run and estimate about $520 in introductory list-price tokens up to the win.
Antigravity flags a bacteriocin candidate
On Oct. 15, 2026 DeepMind said Antigravity identified bacteriocin candidate UniProt A0A0U0D591, 97 amino acids, from Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae. The company said it and other pipeline candidates are in wet-lab validation and did not report measured activity.
Offers frontier models to European researchers
On Oct. 14, 2026 Google DeepMind and Google Cloud said they will give up to 200 European scientific researchers direct access to frontier models and $3 million in compute credits through the EU RAISE initiative. Named tools include AlphaFold 3, WeatherNext, AlphaGenome, AlphaEvolve, and AlphaEarth Foundations. Selection, start date, and the credit split were not stated.
Spokesperson and Bloomberg say Gemini 3.5 Pro will not ship
On Sept. 30, 2026 a Google spokesperson told Reuters that Google no longer plans to release Gemini 3.5 Pro, which Sundar Pichai had said would be released in June. The same day Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the effort, that Google had abandoned 3.5 Pro after the June target passed. Channel NewsAsia carried the Reuters report on Oct. 1. DeepMind's Pro page, read Oct. 15, presents Gemini 3.1 Pro. The unhashed next step Ship Gemini 3.5 Pro still says the model is coming soon and was left unadopted.
Tells UK MPs to focus on AI standards
On Oct. 13, 2026 Owen Larter told the Commons Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee that, asked about a statutory framework, the focus should be on standards. WIRED reported he did not endorse new legislation.
Opens Gemini 4 Argon to paid users and developers
On Oct. 13, 2026 Google made Gemini 4 Argon available on the paid Gemini API, in Gemini for business, and to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app and AI Mode, after a Sept. 30 release limited to Fairwind cyber defenders. Introductory API pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens through Nov. 30, then $4 and $20.
Telegraph says UK AISI regains DeepMind access
The Telegraph reported Oct. 11 that UK AISI will again get pre-release models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind after the White House reversed a September hold. Reuters asked Trump, OpenAI and Anthropic for comment and received none; it did not separately quote DeepMind.
Google Cloud launches Gemini agent at Gemini at Work
On Oct. 8, 2026 Google Cloud announced the Gemini agent at Gemini at Work 2026 as a universal agent for work that plans tasks, uses skills and tools, connects to business systems, and chooses the best model. Googles consumer blog dated the launch Oct. 8. TechCrunch, reporting the event, said Sundar Pichai put Gemini at over 1 billion monthly active users and nearly 90 percent of Fortune 100 businesses on Gemini Enterprise; the agent starts with businesses before consumers; users can pick models including Anthropic Claude, with open-source and private models later. Early testers included On, Shopify, and PayPal. Googles Sept. 30 Argon post still rolls first to Fairwind cyber defenders, then paid API customers and Google AI Ultra, with no public date. This is an enterprise agent surface, not a public Gemini 4 Argon API.
Opens SynthID Detector to the public
On Oct. 7, 2026 Google DeepMind made SynthID Detector available globally in English for images, video, and audio from Google and named partners including OpenAI, Nvidia, and Kakao, with Apple listed as coming soon. Google said it has watermarked more than 180 billion images and videos and 240,000 years of audio.
Suncatcher prototype confirms contact after Transporter-18
On 1 Oct 2026 Google Research said the Planet-built Project Suncatcher prototype launched on SpaceX Transporter-18, reached orbit, made contact, and is operating as expected. Beals said the team will gather in-orbit TPU data on launch stress, radiation and thermal extremes over the coming weeks. This is satellite-level contact, not a published Trillium health readout.
Publishes SynthID Bio protein watermarks in Nature
On Sept. 30, 2026 Google DeepMind introduced SynthID Bio in a Nature paper and company blog as a proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated protein sequences and AlphaFold 3 predicted structures while preserving function. Wet-lab tests across VEGF-A, SARS-CoV-2 spike RBD and PD-L1 binders matched unwatermarked hit rate, binding affinity and sequence diversity. Nature news notes the watermark can be removed by redesign; DeepMind lists tamper resistance as a remaining challenge and is open-sourcing code and in vitro data.
Suncatcher TPU pathfinder launches on Transporter-18
Google's first Project Suncatcher prototype, carrying TPUs on a Planet Labs satellite, launched Oct. 1, 2026 on SpaceX Transporter-18 from Vandenberg. Google's Sept. 24 briefing said the mission will collect radiation, vibration and thermal data before a 2027 two-satellite optical-link test. Independent and Space.com confirmed liftoff; on-orbit TPU results have not been published.
Gemini 4 Argon rolls out to Fairwind defenders
On Sept. 30, 2026 Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu announced Gemini 4 Argon, first available to trusted cyber defenders through the Fairwind Program. Google set introductory pricing at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, raised the output limit to 1 million tokens from 64,000, and reported 77.9% on DeepSWE v1.1. Paid API and Google AI Ultra access is next with no date. Fairwind and internal teams get a version without cyber guardrails; CWE-bench v1 was reported as a 68% tie.
Pichai signs White House Super Intelligence accord
On September 29, 2026 Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities. Pichai is Alphabet/Google CEO, not DeepMind CEO. The accord is a voluntary four-layer safety plan; Trump signed a same-day executive order directing federal agencies to use Super Intelligence and SI in place of Artificial Intelligence and AI.
Pichai attends White House AI lunch; America.gov uses Gemini
On September 29, 2026 Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai is attending a White House East Room lunch with President Trump and Speaker Johnson, company spokespeople told CBS News and Alphabet confirmed to CNBC. The same day Trump unveiled America.gov; a White House official told NBC News the portal uses Gemini and Grok.
Kavukcuoglu says Gemini 4 is in post-training
On 24 Sep 2026 Google DeepMind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu told The Information, as reported by 9to5Google, that Gemini 4 had entered post-training, including safety testing, with internal use in Antigravity. He said Google intends to release an early post-training output as soon as possible and hopes that is much earlier than the end of 2026, without giving a date. He said the lab took a step back to focus on Flash models and that the current focus is Gemini 4; the same interview did not say whether Gemini 3.5 Pro will still ship. DeepMind's models page still labeled 3.5 Pro coming soon as of 29 Sep.
Ships Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar in Gemini Enterprise
On September 24, 2026 Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, pairing native live dialogue with near-real-time lip-synced video personas in Gemini Enterprise. Google said the feature supports 97-language switching, background tool calls, preset or allowlisted custom avatars, and SynthID watermarking on audio and video. The Verge confirmed it is enterprise-only. This is separate from the same-day Project Suncatcher Transporter-18 booking already on the timeline. Gemini 3.5 Pro remained labeled coming soon.
Google books Suncatcher TPU satellite on Transporter-18
On September 24, 2026 Google Research said Project Suncatcher's first prototype satellite, built with Planet, will fly on SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare to test Trillium TPUs in orbit. Google said ground radiation tests showed the chips can survive a dose greater than a five-year mission and that a 2027 follow-on will fly two satellites to test high-bandwidth laser links. Space.com reported Transporter-18 as currently scheduled for October 1; Google described the flight as coming next week.
Co-founder Shane Legg launches the DeepMind Institute
On September 16, 2026 Google DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg launched the DeepMind Institute to broaden public discussion of artificial general intelligence, spanning science, education, society, policy, philosophy and human flourishing, and opening with three essays on AI safety, economic policy and principles for a new utopianism. Legg told the Financial Times that capabilities must not get ahead of safety, called Dario Amodei's proposal to slow frontier releases interesting directionally and worth considering, said it is premature to declare AGI achieved despite recent claims by Nvidia and OpenAI executives, and reaffirmed his forecast of a 50 percent chance of minimal AGI by 2028.
Ships Gemini 3.8 Live and Live Extended Thinking
On September 15, 2026 Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, native speech-to-speech models for real-time voice agents. Live is built for low-latency dialogue with visual grounding and 97-language switching; Extended Thinking adds background multi-step reasoning while the conversation continues. Both are available via the Gemini Live API and Google AI Studio, priced at $0.005 per minute of audio input and $0.018 per minute of audio output, and are rolling out in the Gemini app, Search and Workspace. Gemini 3.5 Pro remained labeled coming soon on DeepMind's models page the same week.
Releases AlphaGenome Atlas covering 9 billion DNA variants
On September 8, 2026 Google DeepMind launched AlphaGenome Atlas, a roughly 1-petabyte catalogue of predicted molecular effects for about 9 billion single-nucleotide variants - every possible single-letter change in the human genome - more than 30 times larger than the AlphaFold Database. The atlas includes an AlphaGenome Variant Impact (AVI) score combining AlphaGenome and AlphaMissense, plus motif maps, and is free for academic use via a web portal, the AlphaGenome API and a Google Antigravity skill, with commercial access planned on Google Cloud.
Launches WeatherNext 3 across Search, Gemini and Maps
On September 3, 2026 Google DeepMind and Google Research released WeatherNext 3, an AI weather model that ingests live geostationary satellite mosaics and station observations to produce hourly forecasts at up to 5 km resolution, about five times sharper than WeatherNext 2. DeepMind said precipitation scores improved by up to 60% versus NASA IMERG at early leads and that day-ahead rain forecasts in consumer products should be up to 50% more accurate, with new 100-meter wind and solar-radiation fields for clean-energy planning. The model is live in Search, Gemini, Maps, the Maps Platform Weather API, Earth Engine, BigQuery and Cloud Storage.
Releases Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for voice agents and dictation
On August 26, 2026 Google introduced Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model for real-time streaming and pre-recorded audio with speaker attribution, word-level timestamps and custom vocabulary. Google said it achieved a 4.0% average word error rate in streaming and 2.6% non-streaming on Artificial Analysis tests, covering 85+ languages, and is live in the Gemini API, Rambler on Android Gboard, Google Antigravity and the Gemini macOS app, with Chrome dictation still listed as coming soon.
Ships Gemini 3.8 Flash and launches Fairwind cyber-defense program
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash on September 2, 2026, three weeks after Gemini 3.7 Flash, alongside a specialized Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber variant for autonomous vulnerability discovery and automated patching - Google's Chrome Security team measured 2.6x more correct patches than larger commercial models, and its Cloud Vulnerability Research team used it to find a critical vulnerability in under two hours. Cyber access is gated through a new Fairwind Program giving vetted governments, healthcare providers, telecoms and critical-infrastructure operators (650+ partners including CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks and Snowflake) early access to the model paired with Google's CodeMender patching harness. The launch, read as Google pushing into Palantir's core government/defense AI territory, contributed to a 7% drop in Palantir shares the same day.
Pilots double-blind evaluations of a Gemini Flash Lite model
On August 27, 2026 Google DeepMind said it is running what it calls the first double-blind evaluation of a proprietary frontier-class model, testing a Gemini Flash Lite system against confidential benchmarks inside a cryptographically sealed Google Cloud Confidential Space environment. Partners include the Singapore AI Safety Institute, OpenMined, AVERI, and MLCommons; the setup is designed so evaluators cannot see Gemini weights and Google cannot see the test prompts, addressing benchmark contamination as models get more capable.
AI responsibility team moves out of DeepMind into Global Affairs
Reports on August 27, 2026 describe Google shifting a roughly 90-person AI responsibility team - covering chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear model risk, human-AI interaction, and the psychological effects of chatbots - out of Google DeepMind and into Google's Global Affairs organization (which oversees lobbying and public policy), effective early September 2026. Some DeepMind researchers voiced concern about losing independence and direct access to Gemini developers; VP Helen King, who leads the team, told staff its research mission, compute, staffing, and ability to publish externally would remain unchanged. The move follows Demis Hassabis's August 5, 2026 shift to Chair as Alphabet continues integrating DeepMind more tightly into Google's corporate structure.
Coding research team relocates from London to Mountain View
Reports in early-to-mid August 2026 describe Google DeepMind shifting AI leadership and its coding-focused research team, led by Sebastian Borgeaud, from its London headquarters to Mountain View, California - part of a broader consolidation of Alphabet's AI leadership in the Bay Area as the company races against OpenAI and Anthropic. The move follows the August 5, 2026 Hassabis/Kavukcuoglu leadership transition and comes amid a stretch of high-profile researcher departures.
Gemini 3.7 Flash ships as the new default workhorse model
DeepMind releases Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13-14, 2026, succeeding Gemini 3.6 Flash as the default model for coding and agentic tasks just 23 days after its predecessor. It lifts the DeepSWE v1.1 coding benchmark from 49.0% to 65.3% and raises output speed from roughly 225 to 340 tokens per second, while Gemini 3.5 Pro remains delayed with no new release date given - Google has not disclosed a fix timeline for the coding-performance and reliability shortfalls that pushed the flagship model past multiple 2026 targets.
Gemini app crosses 1 billion monthly active users
Google discloses on August 11, 2026 that the Gemini app has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, up from 900M+ reported at Google I/O in May 2026 and 950M+ at Alphabet's Q2 2026 earnings call in July - a roughly 11% jump in about three weeks that underscores the app's rapid growth since its rebrand from Bard.
EU orders Android/Search interoperability for rival AI assistants
On July 16, 2026 the European Commission adopted two binding Digital Markets Act decisions ordering Google to give rival AI assistants the same Android system access Gemini holds (invocation, context, actions, resources) and to share anonymized Search ranking and click data with rival search and AI services. Deadlines run from January 2027 (search-data sharing) to July 2027 (Android interoperability); non-compliance risks fines of up to 10% of Alphabet's global annual turnover. This is separate from the EU's ~$4.1B Android antitrust fine and bears directly on how Gemini is distributed.
Hassabis steps down as CEO; Jeff Dean departs Google
On August 5, 2026 Demis Hassabis moved from CEO of Google DeepMind to Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, handing day-to-day operations and the Gemini roadmap to Koray Kavukcuoglu, an SVP now reporting directly to Sundar Pichai. The same day, longtime Google chief scientist Jeff Dean announced he is leaving after 27 years to co-found an AI-for-science startup, Discovery Loop, alongside fellow departing Googlers Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le; Alphabet shares fell about 4% on the news.
Q2 2026 earnings: Gemini hits 950M MAU as AI capex surges past guidance
On July 22, 2026 Alphabet reported Q2 2026 revenue of $119.8B (+24% YoY), with Google Cloud up 82% YoY to $24.8B and a $514.0B backlog. Sundar Pichai disclosed the Gemini app had reached 950 million monthly active users (daily actives tripling over the prior year) and that model APIs were processing 22 billion tokens per minute, up from 16 billion the prior quarter. Alphabet raised its full-year 2026 capex guidance to $195-205B (from $180-190B) after $44.9B in Q2 capex alone, pushing free cash flow negative for the first time in the company's history as a public company.
EU's top court upholds ~$4.1B Android antitrust fine
On July 2, 2026 the EU's top court upheld a roughly 4.1 billion euro (~$4.67B) antitrust fine against Google over Android practices, closing out one of Brussels's longest-running cases against the company even as separate EU and US proceedings continue to bear on how Google can bundle and distribute Gemini.
AlphaFold team dismantled as DeepMind pivots to Gemini
Reports around July 29, 2026 said DeepMind has dismantled the dedicated team behind its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold system, having reassigned most of the original paper's authors over the prior year to Gemini, enzyme design, fusion, genomics and Isomorphic Labs work. The restructuring reflects a broader shift away from single-purpose research teams toward a Gemini-centered, agent-based structure; nearly a quarter of the original AlphaFold paper's full-time DeepMind authors have left the company entirely, including 2024 Nobel laureate John Jumper and co-authors Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, who all joined Anthropic.
Gemini 3.6 Flash ships as the new default model
On July 21, 2026 DeepMind released Gemini 3.6 Flash - the new default workhorse model succeeding 3.5 Flash - alongside a Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite tier and a Flash Cyber variant. It keeps a 1-million-token context window, advances its knowledge cutoff to March 2026, and uses roughly 17% fewer output tokens while scoring higher on coding, long-context and computer-use benchmarks, at $1.50/$7.50 per million input/output tokens. Google said Gemini 3.5 Pro remained in partner testing and that DeepMind had begun its most ambitious pre-training run yet for the next-generation Gemini 4.
Hassabis calls for a global frontier-AI watchdog
On July 14, 2026 Demis Hassabis publishes a manifesto, 'A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age,' urging a U.S.-led, FINRA-style standards body to vet the world's most advanced models and coordinate an industry slowdown if dangers mount - a proposal he wants operational before year-end.
Talent exodus and Gemini 3.5 Pro delays
In June 2026 DeepMind loses star researchers - Nobel laureate John Jumper departs for Anthropic and Noam Shazeer is reported leaving - while the flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro slips past multiple launch targets (widely reported for July 17) after a ground-up architectural rebuild, raising questions about the lab's pace versus OpenAI and Anthropic.
Gemini Omni and 3.5 Flash unveiled at I/O
At Google I/O 2026 Google reveals Gemini Omni - a native world-simulator model merging Veo and Genie that understands physics like gravity and fluid dynamics - and Gemini 3.5 Flash, a frontier-class model at under half the price of rivals. The Gemini app is disclosed at 900M+ monthly active users (up from ~400M a year earlier), with monthly token processing over 3.2 quadrillion.
Gemini 3.1 Pro ships
On February 19, 2026 DeepMind releases Gemini 3.1 Pro in preview, more than doubling its predecessor on abstract-reasoning benchmarks (77.1% on ARC-AGI-2), available across the Gemini app, AI Studio, Vertex AI and NotebookLM.
Alphabet crosses $4 trillion; Apple picks Gemini for Siri
Riding Gemini 3's momentum and Google Cloud growth, Alphabet's market cap tops $4 trillion on January 13, 2026. Apple selects Gemini to power the next generation of Siri, with 'More Personal Siri' features slated for a Spring 2026 rollout.
2025
Gemini 3 takes the frontier lead
On November 18, 2025 Google DeepMind releases Gemini 3 Pro (with a Deep Think mode), claiming state-of-the-art results across math, science, multimodal and agentic benchmarks - scoring 1501 Elo atop LMArena and 76.2% on SWE-bench Verified.
AlphaGenome, AlphaEvolve and Gemini 2.5
DeepMind ships Gemini 2.5 (March 2025), the AlphaEvolve evolutionary coding agent (May 2025) that optimizes Google's own data-center and chip workloads, and AlphaGenome - the first model to read 1M base pairs of DNA at single-letter resolution - advancing its scientific-AI portfolio.
2024
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold
Demis Hassabis and John Jumper are awarded half of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 'for protein structure prediction' via AlphaFold2 - a rare Nobel recognition of an AI achievement.
2023
Gemini 1.0 launches
In December 2023 Google DeepMind releases Gemini, its natively multimodal model family (Ultra, Pro, Nano), positioned as the successor to PaLM and the foundation for Bard (later renamed the Gemini app).
Google Brain and DeepMind merge
In April 2023 Google combines its Google Brain division with DeepMind to form a single unit, Google DeepMind, with Demis Hassabis as CEO - consolidating Alphabet's AI research to accelerate the response to ChatGPT.
2021
Isomorphic Labs spun out
Alphabet launches Isomorphic Labs, an AI-first drug-discovery company spun out of DeepMind and led by Demis Hassabis, to apply AlphaFold-style models to pharmaceutical R&D.
2020
AlphaFold solves protein folding
At the CASP14 competition, AlphaFold 2 predicts protein 3D structures with accuracy rivaling experimental methods, effectively solving a 50-year grand challenge in biology and setting up an open database of predicted structures.
2016
AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol
DeepMind's AlphaGo beats world champion Lee Sedol 4–1 at the ancient game of Go - a landmark long thought to be a decade away - demonstrating deep reinforcement learning at superhuman level and catapulting the lab to global prominence.
2014
Acquired by Google
Google acquires DeepMind on January 26, 2014 for a reported $400–650 million, in what was then Google's largest European acquisition, keeping the research team based in London.
2010
DeepMind founded in London
Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman found DeepMind Technologies in London (officially launched November 15, 2010) with the mission to 'solve intelligence, and then use that to solve everything else.'
09
Funding
$2.7Bdisclosed across 4 rounds with a stated amount
Cumulative disclosed raise · dated rounds
RoundAmountInvestors
Google acquisition
Jan 2014
~$400–650M (reported)
Google (now Alphabet)
Alphabet internal funding (ongoing)
2014–present
Funded via Alphabet R&D; parent capex guided to $180–190B for 2026
