As it seeks to accelerate the pace of its AI development, Google is expanding its AI services; Streamlining teams building platforms and tools.
Logan Kilpatrick, the product lead for Google's AI Studio developer platform, said Thursday. Post Google's AI Studio team at X and the team that develops the API for the company Methon The series of models will move under Google DeepMind.
Google DeepMind; was formed. The AI R&D division is behind Google's recent AI product innovations, including Gemini in 2023, a combination of Google's DeepMind team and the Google Brain team at Google Research.
“This move doubles the depth of our collaboration and will allow us to accelerate research for the developer pipeline,” Kilpatrick wrote in his post. “That's the goal for our team.”
Jaana Dogan, an engineer on one of the teams moving to Google DeepMind; He said. The change in a post on X will help DeepMind's work be “publicly available in ways that were (impossible) before.”
“Better APIs, more open sources; more tools, You name it … it's just a small percentage of what's coming next,” she wrote.
TechCrunch has reached out to Google for more information and will update this post if we hear back.
Google's folding of dev-focused AI teams into its Google DeepMind org comes after the company. Transfer The team behind its Gemini-powered chatbot also called DeepMind Gemini. At the time, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the reorg was intended to “continue to accelerate the pace of growth” of Google's AI development.
There is also Google. Transfer Its models for DeepMind in recent months; Research and responsible AI teams.
In the audio file December At the Google All-hands Meeting obtained by CNBC, Pichai described the company's Gemini chatbot as having “strong momentum” and acknowledged that “we have some work to do in 2025 to close the gap and establish a leadership position there.”
“Expanding Gemini on the consumer side will be our biggest focus (by 2025),” Pichai News is available. He said. “I think it's really important internally that we understand the urgency of this moment, and (a) we need to move faster as a company. The stakes are high.”
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