Google AI is a division of

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dedicated to

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. It was announced at

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2017 by CEO

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. This division has expanded its reach with research facilities in various parts of the world such as Zurich, Paris, Israel, and Beijing. In 2023, Google AI was part of the reorganization initiative that elevated its head,

Jeff Dean Jeffrey Adgate Dean (born July 23, 1968) is an American computer scientist and software engineer. Since 2018, he has been the lead of Google AI. He was appointed Google's chief scientist in 2023 after the merger of DeepMind and Google Brain into ...

, to the position of chief scientist at Google. This reorganization involved the merging of

Google Brain Google Brain was a deep learning artificial intelligence research team that served as the sole AI branch of Google before being incorporated under the newer umbrella of Google AI, a research division at Google dedicated to artificial intelligence ...

and

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, a UK-based company that Google acquired in 2014 that operated separately from the company's core research. In March 2019, Google announced the creation of an Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC) comprising eight members: Alessandro Acquisti, Bubacarr Bah, De Kai, Dyan Gibbens,

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, Kay Coles James,

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and William Joseph Burns. Following objections from a large number of Google staff to the appointment of Kay Coles James, the Council was abandoned within one month of its establishment. In February 2025,

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removed guidelines in their public AI ethics policy that formerly ruled out applying their AI technology to applications that were "likely to cause harm." Google published
blog post
defending the change.

Projects

Google Vids Google Vids is an online video timeline-based video editing application included as part of the Google Workspace & Premiere Pro-esque suite. It is designed to help users create informational videos for work-related purposes. The app uses Google's ...

: AI-powered video creation for work. *

Google Assistant Google Assistant is a virtual assistant software application developed by Google that is primarily available on home automation and mobile devices. Based on artificial intelligence, Google Assistant can engage in two-way conversations, unlike ...

: is a

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software application since 2023 developed by Google AI. * Serving cloud-based TPUs ( tensor processing units) in order to develop machine learning software. The TPU research cloud provides free access to a cluster of cloud TPUs to researchers engaged in open-source machine learning research. *

TensorFlow TensorFlow is a Library (computing), software library for machine learning and artificial intelligence. It can be used across a range of tasks, but is used mainly for Types of artificial neural networks#Training, training and Statistical infer ...

: a machine learning software library. * Magenta: a deep learning research team exploring the role of machine learning as a tool in the creative process. The team has released many

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allowing artists and musicians to extend their processes using AI. With the use of Magenta, musicians and composers could create high-quality music at a lower cost, making it easier for new artists to enter the industry. *

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: a new 54-

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programmable

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. *

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: a family of conversational neural language models. * The creation of

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s in under-represented languages, to facilitate the training of AI models in these languages.

Former

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: a chatbot based on the

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model, no longer developed by Google AI since February 8, 2024, as the chatbot (now merged into the Gemini brand) is now developed by

Google DeepMind DeepMind Technologies Limited, trading as Google DeepMind or simply DeepMind, is a British–American artificial intelligence research laboratory which serves as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Founded in the UK in 2010, it was acquired by Goo ...

. * Duet AI: a

Google Workspace Google Workspace (formerly G Suite, formerly Google Apps) is a collection of cloud computing, Productivity software, productivity and Collaborative software, collaboration tools, software and products developed and marketed by Google. It con ...

integration that can notably generate text or images, no longer developed by Google AI since February 8, 2024, as the Google Workspace integration (now merged into the Gemini brand) is now developed by Google DeepMind. * Crowdsource: a

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platform developed by

intended to improve a host of Google services through the data donated from users for training of different

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