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The lab behind AlphaFold and Gemini, and the clearest example of how the foundation-model race reorganised even Alphabet's own AI operation - the 2023 Brain/DeepMind merger, and the August 2026 leadership reshuffle under pressure from OpenAI and Anthropic.
DeepMind was founded in London in 2010 by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman, and acquired by Google in 2014. In April 2023, Google merged DeepMind with Google Brain, its other internal AI research group, into a single organization - Google DeepMind - reporting to Alphabet. The combined lab builds the Gemini model family that now underpins Google Search's AI features, the Gemini app, and Google's developer AI tooling, alongside continued fundamental research: DeepMind's AlphaFold protein-structure work won Hassabis and colleague John Jumper the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
In August 2026, Hassabis stepped back from day-to-day CEO duties into a chair and chief scientist role at Alphabet, with Koray Kavukcuoglu taking over frontier model leadership at Google DeepMind - a restructuring reported alongside researcher departures and delays to the Gemini 3.5 release.
Gemini
Alphabet's flagship multimodal model family, powering the Gemini app, AI Overviews in Search, and developer APIs.
gemini.google.com (opens in a new tab)AlphaFold
Protein structure prediction model, made freely available for academic research.
deepmind.google/technologies/alphafold (opens in a new tab)Veo
Text-to-video generation model.
The maker of ChatGPT and the GPT model family, and the company most responsible for the current wave of consumer generative AI.
AI safety-focused lab behind the Claude model family, founded by former OpenAI researchers.
Meta's consolidated AI division, formed in mid-2025 to unify its foundation-model, research and product AI work under one organization.
