Analysis

October 10, 2023

‘It needed to be different from DeepMind’ — why this founder left the world’s top AI lab

Alumni of the company want to focus on using AI to create solutions for more ambitious goals like the climate crisis


Tim Smith

3 min read

Google-owned DeepMind has been responsible for some of the world’s biggest breakthroughs in machine learning — but today more and more staffers are leaving the London-based firm to launch their own ventures as investment into AI explodes.

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Tim Smith

Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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