DeepMind would have ‘probably failed’ without Google, says early investor

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• Founding DeepMind investor Humayun Sheikh told CNBC that the London AI lab would have “probably failed” if Google hadn’t bought it.
  
• Google paid a reported $600 million for DeepMind in 2014.
  
• While Google has found uses for DeepMind’s AI, its technology has not been widely applied elsewhere and the company costs Alphabet hundreds of millions of dollars a year. 
  

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