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| February 2025 | Alphabet removed previous guidelines in their public AI ethics policy that had restricted applying AI technology to potentially harmful applications, which was defended by Google through a public blog post. |
| February 8 2024 | Bard chatbot was discontinued and merged into the Gemini brand, transitioning development from Google AI to Google DeepMind. |
| February 8 2024 | Duet AI Google Workspace integration was discontinued and merged into the Gemini brand, transitioning development from Google AI to Google DeepMind. |
| 2023 | Google Assistant became a virtual assistant software application developed by Google AI. |
| April 2023 | Google Brain was merged into former Google sister company DeepMind to form Google DeepMind, marking the end of its independent existence as a research team. |
| 2022 | Imagen development was transferred to Google DeepMind following the merger between Google Brain and DeepMind. |
| 2022 | Google Brain developed two text-to-image models called Imagen and Parti, creating a competitive offering to OpenAI's DALL-E image generation technology. |
| March 2022 | Google fired AI researcher Satrajit Chatterjee after he questioned the findings of a Nature paper by Google AI team members Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini, which reported results from AI techniques for integrated circuit placement. |
| April 2021 | Samy Bengio left the Google Brain team, with Zoubin Ghahramani taking on his responsibilities. |
| February 2021 | Google fired Margaret Mitchell, a leader of the company's AI ethics team, allegedly for using automated tools to find support for Timnit Gebru. Following this, engineers began quitting in protest of Gebru's termination. |
| 2020 | Google Brain Team collaborated with University of Lille to develop the Interactive Speaker Recognition (ISR) model, an advanced automatic speaker recognition system that can identify speakers by requesting minimal user-specific words and enhance text-to-speech training security. |
| 2020 | Researchers from Google Brain, Intel AI Lab, and UC Berkeley created an AI model that enables robots to learn surgery-related tasks, such as suturing, by training with surgery videos. |
| December 2020 | AI ethicist Timnit Gebru left Google after refusing to retract a paper on the potential risks of AI, including environmental impact, training data biases, and public deception. The request to retract the paper was made by Megan Kacholia, vice president of Google Brain. |
| January 2020 | Chris Lattner left the Google Brain team and joined SiFive. |
| 2019 | Google launched the Google Cloud Robotics Platform for developers, combining robotics, AI, and cloud technology to enable collaborative robotic automation. |
| April 2019 | The ATEAC was disbanded within one month of its establishment following significant objections from Google staff regarding the appointment of Kay Coles James. |
| March 2019 | Google announced the creation of an Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC) with eight members, including notable experts like Alessandro Acquisti and Luciano Floridi. |
| 2017 | Google AI division was officially announced by CEO Sundar Pichai at Google I/O conference, marking the company's dedicated focus on artificial intelligence research and development. |
| August 2017 | Chris Lattner, creator of Apple's Swift programming language, joined the Google Brain team. |
| 2016 | Google Brain Team collaborated with researchers at X to develop a research method for real-time robot control, focusing on hand-eye coordination and robotic grasping of novel objects with self-correction capabilities. |
| 2014 | Google Brain team included Jeff Dean, Quoc Le, Ilya Sutskever, Alex Krizhevsky, Samy Bengio, and Vincent Vanhoucke. |
| March 2013 | Google hired Geoffrey Hinton, a leading deep learning researcher, and acquired DNNResearch Inc., with Hinton planning to split his time between university research and Google. |
| June 2012 | New York Times reported Google Brain's breakthrough: a 16,000-processor cluster successfully trained itself to recognize cats using 10 million digital images from YouTube videos. |
| 2011 | Google Brain was formed as a deep learning artificial intelligence research team, combining open-ended machine learning research with large-scale computing resources. |
| 2011 | Google Brain project initiated as a part-time research collaboration between Google fellow Jeff Dean and Google Researcher Greg Corrado, starting as a Google X project. |
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