New hardware launches from Alphabet Inc’s Google on Oct 4 showed how the acquisition of London-based artificial intelligence company DeepMind might start to generate revenue rather than just research papers.
Alphabet bought DeepMind for a reported US$400mil (RM1.69bil) in 2014. The firm has produced a steady stream of machine learning research – from teaching software to play the strategy game Go better than any human on the planet to creating artificial intelligence that mimicked the human brain's ability to dream and even imagine future actions.