[R] How does DeepMind do research? • r/MachineLearning

How does DeepMind choose research topics to focus on? Going through DeepMind's publication lists, their focus seems a bit more narrow than other labs. Yet they are probably one of the largest (if not the largest) research group with about 400 people (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepMind) . For example, the have a great deal of work on generative models but no work on GANs. They also have a great deal of focus on Reinforcement Learning but not robotics.