# Google Bought Its AI Future for $500M — or So It Said

- slug: google-bought-its-ai-future-for-500m-or-so-it-said
- date: 2026-03-28
- category: Artificial Intelligence

In January 2014, Google agreed to buy DeepMind, a London-based artificial intelligence lab founded in 2010 by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and Mustafa Suleyman.

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