Google DeepMind
AI Research
- Market Cap
- ~$4.1T(Alphabet, Oct 2026)
- Revenue
- Q1 2026: $109.9B total Alphabet (+22% YoY); Google Cloud $20B (+63% YoY); 350M paid AI subscriptions
- Profit Status
- Highly profitable(Q1 2026 net income $62.58B, +81% YoY)
- Employees
- ~5,500(DeepMind/Google Brain)
About Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind is the unified AI research arm of Alphabet, combining Google Brain and DeepMind. Pioneers in reinforcement learning, protein folding, and multimodal AI.
Company History
DeepMind founded 2010, Google acquired 2014. Merged with Google Brain Apr 2023. Gemini 2.5 Pro (Mar 2025) topped LMArena. Nobel Prize in Chemistry Oct 2024 for AlphaFold. Gemini 3 launched (2025-2026). Gemini 3.5 Flash (May 2026) - 4× faster than other frontier models. Google Cloud hit $20B in Q1 2026 (63% YoY). 350M paid AI subscriptions. 8.5M developers building with Google models.
AI Models & Benchmarks
7 modelsGemini 3.5 Flash
Default Gemini model since May 19, 2026. 4× faster than other frontier models. Outperforms Gemini 3.1 Pro on Terminal-Bench 2.1 (76.2%) and MCP Atlas (83.6%). Powers Gemini Spark 24/7 agent.
Gemini 3.5 Pro
Rolling out to GA in June 2026 via AI Studio and Gemini API. Top-tier frontier model.
Gemini 3.1 Deep Think
Reasoning-focused variant of Gemini 3.1 series for complex multi-step problems.
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Available via API; superseded by Gemini 3.5 Flash for most use cases.
Gemma 3 27B
#1 single-GPU open model. Outperforms Llama 3.3 70B at half the size.
AlphaFold 3
Predicts 3D structure of all life's molecules. Won Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024.
Veo 3
Latest video generation model integrated into Runway's platform (Runway integrates Veo 3.1).
Company Timeline
12 milestones- Sep 2010DeepMind founded in London by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, Mustafa Suleyman
- Jan 2014Google acquires DeepMind for ~$500M
- Jan 2016AlphaGo defeats world champion Lee Sedol
- Apr 2023Google Brain and DeepMind merged into Google DeepMind
- Dec 2023Gemini 1.0 unveiled
- Feb 2024Gemini 1.5 Pro - 1M/2M token context
- May 2024AlphaFold 3 - predicts structure of all molecules
- Oct 2024Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold (Hassabis & Jumper)
- Mar 2025Gemini 2.5 Pro - #1 LMArena; Gemma 3 open-source
- 2025-2026Gemini 3 and 3.1 series launched; Google Cloud hits $20B quarterly
- May 2026Gemini 3.5 Flash becomes default - 4× faster than competitors; Gemini Spark 24/7 agent; Google AI subscriptions (Ultra $99.99/mo)
- Jun 2026Gemini 3.5 Pro rolling out; 8.5M developers building with Google models monthly; 2B users via AI Overviews in Search
Products & Services
6- Gemini
- Gemma
- AlphaFold
- AlphaStar
- Imagen
- SynthID
People & ecosystem
Key People
- Koray Kavukcuoglu (SVP, Head of Google DeepMind)
- Demis Hassabis (Chair)
- Shane Legg (Chief AGI Scientist)
Key Investors
- Alphabet (wholly owned)