Google DeepMind combines the lineages of DeepMind and Google Brain in a single research organization. Its work spans frontier models, reinforcement learning, scientific discovery, robotics, and responsible AI, with major systems including Gemini, AlphaGo, and AlphaFold.
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The AI-safety researcher has become a program lead at BlueDot after resigning from Google DeepMind over concerns about the pace and direction of advanced AI development.
September 14, 2026moveJosh Engels leaves Google DeepMind for METRThe AGI Safety researcher joined METR to investigate incidents of AI misalignment and assess whether current safeguards are sufficient.
September 12, 2026moveThore Graepel leaves Google DeepMind to pursue AI reasoning ventureThe AlphaGo researcher has ended his latest stint at Google DeepMind and is pursuing an unnamed project focused on AI reasoning.
September 7, 2026moveTamay Besiroglu leaves Mechanize for Google DeepMindMechanize’s co-founder and former CEO is now a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, according to his updated LinkedIn profile.
September 1, 2026moveBarret Zoph rejoins Google DeepMindThe neural architecture search pioneer is returning to Google as Vice President of Research to work on reinforcement learning and post-training.
August 27, 2026launchRishub Jain and Joshua Jacob launch Sampura ResearchThe former Google DeepMind colleagues have started a London nonprofit developing human-AI methods for evaluating increasingly capable models.
August 25, 2026moveJosef Dean joins Ineffable Intelligence from Google DeepMindThe AI systems engineer joined David Silver's startup as a member of technical staff.
August 7, 2026The Gemini research engineer is now tracked separately from the higher-citation Naman Goyal at Thinking Machines Lab.
