DeepMind founder leaves to take up separate AI role with Google

The co-founder of Deepmind, Google's flagship artificial intelligence company, has left his post to take up another position within the multinational technology company. Mustafa Suleyman announced on Twitter he would be joining Google's team looking at the opportunities and impacts of applied artificial intelligence. Suleyman was placed on leave from DeepMind in August. At the time the company did not say why he was placed on leave but claimed the decision was mutual, adding that he was expected to be back by the end of the year. In a tweet on 5 December, Suleyman said: "After a wonderful decade at DeepMind, I'm very excited to announce that I'll be joining the fantastic team at Google to work on opportunities and impacts of applied AI technologies. "Can't wait to get going!