# Google AI Google AI is a subsidiary of Google DeepMind focused on artificial intelligence research and products, announced at Google I/O 2017 and reorganized in 2023 under the Google DeepMind umbrella. Google AI is a subsidiary of Google DeepMind dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI). It was announced at Google I/O 2017 by CEO Sundar Pichai, consolidating the company's AI research and product efforts under a single brand. The division expanded its reach with research facilities in various parts of the world, including Zurich, Paris, Israel, and Beijing. In 2023, Google AI was part of a reorganization initiative that elevated its head, Jeff Dean, to the position of chief scientist at Google. This reorganization involved the merging of Google Brain and Google DeepMind, a UK-based company that Google acquired in 2014 and which had operated separately from the company's core research. The unified entity became known as Google DeepMind, with Google AI operating as a subsidiary within it. ## Governance and Ethics In March 2019, Google announced the creation of an Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC) comprising eight members: Alessandro Acquisti, Bubacarr Bah, De Kai, Dyan Gibbens, Joanna Bryson, Kay Coles James, Luciano Floridi, and William Joseph Burns. Following objections from a large number of Google staff to the appointment of Kay Coles James, the Council was abandoned within one month of its establishment. In February 2025, Alphabet removed guidelines in their public AI ethics policy that formerly ruled out applying their AI technology to applications that were "likely to cause harm". Google published a blog post defending the change, signaling a shift in its approach to AI governance and deployment. ## Projects Google AI has overseen a range of projects spanning [machine-learning](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/machine-learning) research, [generative-ai](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/generative-ai) tools, and cloud infrastructure. Key initiatives include: - **Google Vids**: an AI-powered video creation tool designed for workplace use. - **Google Assistant**: a virtual assistant software application that has been developed by Google AI since 2023. - **Cloud TPUs**: serving cloud-based tensor processing units to develop machine learning software. The TPU research cloud provides free access to a cluster of cloud TPUs to researchers engaged in open-source machine learning research. - **TensorFlow**: a machine learning software library created by Google Brain in 2015, widely used for building and training [neural-network](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/neural-network) models. - **Magenta**: a [deep-learning](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/deep-learning) research team exploring the role of machine learning as a tool in the creative process. The team has released many open source projects allowing artists and musicians to extend their processes using AI. With the use of Magenta, musicians and composers could create high-quality music at a lower cost, making it easier for new artists to enter the industry. - **Sycamore**: a 54-qubit programmable quantum processor, demonstrating advances in quantum computing. - **LaMDA**: a family of conversational neural language models, a precursor to later [large-language-model](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/large-language-model) developments. - **Datasets in under-represented languages**: the creation of datasets to facilitate the training of AI models in these languages, supporting broader [artificial-intelligence](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/artificial-intelligence) accessibility. ### Former Projects Several projects were transferred to Google DeepMind or discontinued as part of the 2023 reorganization: - **Bard**: a chatbot based on the Gemini model, no longer developed by Google AI since February 8, 2024, as the chatbot, now merged into the Gemini brand, is developed by Google DeepMind. - **Duet AI**: a Google Workspace integration that can notably generate text or images, no longer developed by Google AI since February 8, 2024, as the Workspace integration, now merged into the Gemini brand, is developed by Google DeepMind. - **Crowdsource**: a crowdsourcing platform developed by Google intended to improve a host of Google services through data donated from users for training different algorithms. ## Research and Impact Google AI's research has contributed to foundational advances in [transformer](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/transformer) architectures and [deep-learning](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/deep-learning) techniques, often in collaboration with academic institutions and industry partners. The division's work on [positional-encoding](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/positional-encoding) and [multi-head-attention](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/multi-head-attention) has influenced the broader field of [natural-language-processing](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/natural-language-processing), while its cloud offerings, such as [google-cloud](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/google-cloud) TPUs, have supported external researchers and enterprises. The merger with Google DeepMind in 2023 consolidated talent and resources, positioning the combined entity to compete with other AI research organizations like [openai](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/openai) and [anthropic](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/anthropic). The unified structure aims to accelerate progress in AI development while maintaining a focus on responsible deployment, though the 2025 ethics policy change has sparked debate about the company's commitments in this area. ## See Also - [google-deepmind](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/google-deepmind) - [machine-learning](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/machine-learning) - [generative-ai](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/generative-ai) - [google-cloud](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/google-cloud) ## External links - [Wikipedia: Google AI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_AI) --- Source: https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/google-ai License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Last updated: 2026-09-14T06:29:17.235546+00:00