Report: Google’s DeepMind is withholding AI research for competitive advantage
Last year, GoogleDeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis won the Nobel Prize for chemistry (along with his colleague John M. Jumper) for his work on AlphaFold2, a groundbreaking model that’s been used by over 2 million researchers in 190 countries.
Now, the Financial Times is reporting that former researchers who worked with Hassabis at DeepMind say the organization is breaking with that tradition of scientific sharing by withholding AI research for Google’s strategic advantage in a very competitive market.
According to the report, researchers said work that showed weaker performance by Google’s own models was held back, as well as research that highlighted weaknesses in competitor OpenAI’s models.
Most of today’s modern AI tools have Google research to thank for their existence. The key innovation of “transformers” was developed at Google, but the company was late to capitalize on the breakthrough.
According to the report, researchers said work that showed weaker performance by Google’s own models was held back, as well as research that highlighted weaknesses in competitor OpenAI’s models.
Most of today’s modern AI tools have Google research to thank for their existence. The key innovation of “transformers” was developed at Google, but the company was late to capitalize on the breakthrough.
