DeepMind is building a team in the US to work on Google products

London artificial intelligence lab DeepMind is setting up a sizeable new team in the US in a bid to increase collaboration with parent company Google. DeepMind, bought by Google in 2014 for £400 million, is planning to hire "a couple of dozen" people at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, according to a DeepMind spokesperson. "We're proud to already have close partnerships with many teams at Google, but we're yet to develop an algorithm that gets rid of time zone differences," the spokesperson told Business Insider. "So we're hiring a small DeepMind Applied team in Mountain View to bridge the gap between Google and our team in London, helping us collaborate even more closely to bring our research breakthroughs to Google users around the world." The expansion represents a significant milestone in DeepMind's journey and comes after Yann LeCun, the head of AI research at Facebook, suggested that DeepMind was too far away from the Google "mothership" to have a significant impact.