Google DeepMind enters a new era as co-founder Demis Hassabis shifts AI role
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DeepMind’s tighter integration with Google’s commercial engine is another data point that frontier research and productization are converging. For enterprise buyers, that likely means faster translation of lab capabilities into cloud services—but also more lock-in pressure as models, infra, and apps come as a bundle.
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