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London-based Artificial Intelligence company DeepMind was acquired by Google in 2014, and merged with Google Brain in 2023 to create Google DeepMind. Under founder and CEO Demis Hassabis, DeepMind has been responsible for several huge leaps in AI technology, including AlphaGo, AlphaFold, WaveNet, AlphaCode and Google's Gemini large language model. It's also working on a range of other projects in the healthcare space.

  • Understanding the patterns and structure of dolphinspeak could give us a whole new perspective on how they communicate and operate in the wild
    Biology
    Google AI learns to speak dolphin
    Researchers have developed DolphinGemma, the first LLM for understanding dolphin language. It could help us translate what these incredible creatures are saying, potentially much faster than we ever could with manual approaches used over decades.
  • Weather forecasting is about to get a whole lot more accurate thanks to Google DeepMind's GenCast AI-powered prediction model
    Environment
    Google's weather tool gets it right 97% more times than best forecaster
    GenCast, an AI-powered weather prediction tool, can crank out 15 days of highly accurate weather forecasts in minutes. Not only will it help you dress right in the morning, but it can give valuable, life-saving warnings for extreme weather events.