Hello everybody,

We have been an Al-first firm since 2016 as a result of we see Al as probably the most important option to
ship on our mission. Since then, we have used Al to enhance lots of our core merchandise, from
Search, YouTube and Gmail to the unimaginable digital camera in Pixel telephones. We have helped companies
and builders harness the facility of Al by way of Google Cloud, and we have proven Al’s potential to
handle 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 the whole
trade ahead with foundational breakthroughs which have ushered in a brand new period of Al.

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

This group, referred to as Google DeepMind, will deliver collectively a part of Google Analysis (the Mind
staff) and DeepMind. Combining all this expertise into one targeted staff, backed by the
computational sources 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 normal Al programs — analysis that can assist energy the subsequent 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 longer term path of our Al analysis and head up our most important
and strategic technical tasks associated to Al — the primary of which might be a collection of highly effective,
multi-modal Al fashions.

This transfer brings collectively two main analysis teams within the Al area. Their collective
accomplishments in Al over the past 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 giant 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 alteration, 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 carefully with Jeff as Chief
Scientist, Google Analysis will proceed its concentrate on basic and utilized analysis throughout a
broad portfolio. This implies cracking seemingly unattainable, foundational and long-term
challenges in pc science — together with in Al and ML — that profit folks’s lives across the
world, from algorithms and principle to privateness and safety to quantum computing, well being,
accountable Al, and extra.

We’re asserting these modifications right now and can take the subsequent 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 inspiration that introduced
us to this inflection level.

I am so excited for the subsequent part of this journey the progress we’ make in opposition to our mission,
and all of the methods we’ll assist folks attain their potential with more and more succesful and accountable
Al.

Sundar