DeepMind's small army of AI researchers in Mountain View is growing

DeepMind now has almost two dozen staff working out of an office at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California. The London-headquartered artificial intelligence (AI) lab, acquired by Google in 2014 for a reported £400 million, has formed the team in less than six months. "I can confirm there are currently just over 20 DeepMind staff in Mountain View," a DeepMind spokesperson told Business Insider on Wednesday. "The team there continues to hire and will grow." The team has been established so that DeepMind can collaborate more closely with Google. DeepMind's researchers, for example, are helping engineers at Google to embed AI into Google Play, Ads, and Shopping.