Founded by Denis Hassibis in Britain in 2010, bought by Google in 2014.

Mission:

• develop AGI
• apply AGI to pressing social issues

300 researchers, based in kings cross London

Reinforcement learning, progress to a goal

Accomplishments

• Created AlphaGo, the first AI to defeat a human at the game of Go
• Wavenet, human speech
• Cooling the Google data centers efficiently
• “Agent”
• Streams, medical info

2015 Originally founded by Elon Musk, dedicated to making state-of-the-art AI tools available as open-source.

2018 Elon Musk withdrew due to disagreement with changes made in the strategic direction.

2019 Microsoft stepped in as major investor.

founded by Elon Musk
working on a machine-brain interface, with electronic implants directly into the brain

University of Montreal
Yoshua Bengio, Director
Supported by Facebook, IBM, Google

A competition platform including datasets and tools.
https://www.kaggle.com

drive.ai
deeplearning.ai
Coursera
Stanford University
Baidu, Inc.
Google Brain (Deep Learning) project. Eclipsed and absorbed by DeepMind when it was acquired in 2014
Facebook AI Research (FAIR)

Microsoft number of employees in AI research:
in 2016: ~5,000
in 2017: ~8,000

April 30 - May 3, 2018
Vancouver, CA