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Nearly a decade ago, DeepMind was a little-known London-based AI startup founded by Hassabis, Shane Legge and Mustafa Suleiman.
In 2013, as the AI race was heating up, Facebook was in active talks to acquire the startup, but the talks fell through. information The news broke in 2014. A year later, Google reportedly acquired the company for more than $500 million.
Reports about the acquisition at the time did not say why talks with Facebook fell apart.
But in a recent interview South Park CommonsIn an interview with Google, the San Francisco-based technology community, Zuckerberg appeared to suggest that Hassabis had used the company to extract better terms from Google.
“I wanted to buy DeepMind, but they got bought by Google,” he said. “And Demis was brilliant, by the way. He successfully coaxed me out of Google and got me a good price. I respect the way he did that. He has the power. He has the power.”
Zuckerberg did not elaborate, and spokespeople for Alphabet and Meta did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Since being acquired by Google, DeepMind has focused on research into artificial general intelligence (AGI), which gives computers human-like reasoning capabilities.
Instead of acquiring DeepMind, Facebook launched its own research lab, Facebook AI Research (FAIR), which Zuckerberg said in an interview with South Park Commons helped provide an “open source” approach to Meta’s AI research.
When Meta introduced its Llama model last year, the company touted the technology as open source, which essentially means that any developer, researcher, or company can access the model’s internals and modify Llama to fit their own use cases. But some critics disputed Meta’s labeling, arguing that Llama isn’t truly open source.
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