Hello everybody,

We have been an Al-first firm since 2016 as a result of we see Al as probably the most important strategy to
ship on our mission. Since then, we have used Al to enhance a lot of our core merchandise, from
Search, YouTube and Gmail to the unbelievable digicam in Pixel telephones. We have helped companies
and builders harness the ability of Al by way of Google Cloud, and we have proven Al’s potential to
tackle societal points like well being and local weather change.

Alongside the best way, we have been fortunate to have two world-class analysis groups main all the
business ahead with foundational breakthroughs which have ushered in a brand new period of Al.

The tempo of progress is now quicker than ever earlier than. To make sure the daring and accountable
improvement of basic Al, we’re making a unit that may assist us construct extra succesful programs
extra safely and responsibly.

This group, known as Google DeepMind, will deliver collectively a part of Google Analysis (the Mind
crew) and DeepMind. Combining all this expertise into one targeted crew, backed by the
computational assets of Google, will considerably speed up our progress in Al.

As CEO of the brand new unit, Demis Hassabis will lead the event of our most succesful and
accountable basic Al programs — analysis that may assist energy the following era of our
services and products. Jeff Dean will tackle the elevated position of Google’s Chief Scientist,
reporting to me. In that capability he’ll function Chief Scientist to Google Analysis and Google
DeepMind. Jeff will assist set the long run route of our Al analysis and head up our most crucial
and strategic technical tasks associated to Al — the primary of which will probably be a collection of highly effective,
multi-modal Al fashions.

This transfer brings collectively two main analysis teams within the Al discipline. Their collective
accomplishments in Al during the last decade span AlphaGo, Transformers, word2vec, WaveNet,
AlphaFold, sequence to sequence fashions, distillation, deep reinforcement studying, and
distributed programs and software program frameworks like TensorFlow and JAX for expressing, coaching
and deploying massive scale ML fashions.

Google DeepMind will function as a nimble, fast-paced unit, with clear factors of connection and
collaboration with Google Analysis and the PAs.

With this variation, James Manyika will now oversee Google Analysis alongside together with his current
Tech & Society groups. A lot of Analysis’s technological advances have formed core merchandise
and options throughout Alphabet and can proceed to take action. Working intently with Jeff as Chief
Scientist, Google Analysis will proceed its give attention to elementary and utilized analysis throughout a
broad portfolio. This implies cracking seemingly unimaginable, foundational and long-term
challenges in pc science — together with in Al and ML — that profit individuals’s lives across the
world, from algorithms and concept to privateness and safety to quantum computing, well being,
accountable Al, and extra.

We’re saying these adjustments right now and can take the following few weeks to get the brand new groups
into place.

Please be part of me in congratulating Demis, Jeff, and James on their new roles and their continued
collaboration. The Google Analysis and DeepMind groups have laid the muse that introduced
us to this inflection level.

I am so excited for the following part of this journey the progress we’ make towards our mission,
and all of the methods we’ll assist individuals attain their potential with more and more succesful and accountable
Al.

Sundar