# DeepMind

[https://timesof.ai/platform/deepmind](https://timesof.ai/platform/deepmind)

DeepMind (Alphabet) conducts cutting-edge AI research with applications in science, games, and real-world systems.

DeepMind focuses on solving intelligence to advance science.

## Coverage

- [OpenAI and Anthropic Tell UK MPs Voluntary AI Safety Pledges Are Not Enough; Google DeepMind and Meta Decline to Back New Laws](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/uk-bist-openai-anthropic-binding-ai-safety-rules-evidence) — At a UK Commons hearing, Anthropic and OpenAI backed binding AI safety rules while Google DeepMind and Meta declined. Officials described the UK regime as voluntary.
- [Biohub's $1.8B Virtual Biology Stack Mixes New Cash With Prior Pledges](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/biohub-virtual-biology-initiative-1-8b-google-meta-doe) — Biohub's $1.8B virtual-cell push mixes $300M corporate and DOE $500M+ new commitments with April Biohub and prior NIH spend. Embargoes for funders.
- [Gemini 4 Argon Opens as a Fairwind-Gated Cyber Frontier — Guardrails Come Later](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/google-gemini-4-argon) — Gemini 4 Argon goes to Fairwind defenders without cyber guardrails; API and AI Ultra later. Lab DeepSWE 77.9%, AutomationBench 51.3%.
- [Lehane Says OpenAI Has Been Holding Safety Talks With Anthropic and Google](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/openai-lehane-anthropic-google-safety-talks) — Chris Lehane says OpenAI has held safety talks with Anthropic and Google for weeks and does not see a need for an antitrust waiver.
- [Gemini 3.8 Live Claims the Independent Speech-to-Speech Board](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/google-gemini-3-8-live-extended-thinking) — Google says Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking leads Artificial Analysis S2S Quality Index at 82.6. API $0.005/$0.018 per min; powers Search Live and Gemini Live.
- [WeatherNext 3 Adds Hourly Forecasts and Selected 5 km Fields](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/google-weathernext-3) — WeatherNext 3 brings hourly forecasts and selected 5 km surface fields to Google products. Performance and Brightband ranking are attributed to Google.
- [Gemini 3.8 Flash Ships as Google Splits Cyber Into a Gated SKU](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/google-gemini-3-8-flash-cyber-fairwind) — Gemini 3.8 Flash holds $0.75/$3.75 intro pricing through year-end. Flash Cyber is Fairwind-gated for defenders.
- [Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash Is a Director’s API — Extend, Interpolate, Upscale](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/google-gemini-omni-1-1-flash) — Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash ships with 40-second scene extension, first/last frames, and 4K upscaling — a director’s API for developers.
- [Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Brings Speech Recognition Into the Gemini Family](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/google-gemini-3-5-transcribe) — Google announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe in public API preview, citing 4.0% streaming WER and 85+ languages.
- [Gemma’s Billion-Download Badge Is Distribution Infra — Not 1B Unique Users](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/google-gemma-one-billion-downloads) — Gemma open models passed 1 billion downloads; Awesome Gemma GitHub directory launched. Distribution milestone — not Gemini app MAU.
- [Google Hides the Sparkle — SynthID Stays When the Visible Mark Goes](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/google-gemini-visible-watermark-toggle) — Google lets Gemini users hide the visible sparkle watermark on images, video, and music; SynthID and C2PA stay. Opposite user-facing choice from Claude’s text watermark.
- [Ryanair Bets Gemini Enterprise on Crew, Weather, and Failover](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/ryanair-google-cloud-gemini-enterprise) — Ryanair’s five-year Google Cloud deal plans Workspace and Cloud deployment to about 35,000 employees, with Gemini Enterprise for agentic workflows.
- [Pixel 11 Puts Gemini Nano on the Lock Screen — Hardware Distribution for the App Stack](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/google-pixel-11-gemini-intelligence) — Pixel 11 ships Tensor G6 and on-device Gemini Nano up to 3.5× faster — hardware distribution of Google’s Gemini stack from $899.
- [Hassabis Goes Strategic; Dean Leaves — DeepMind’s Control Plane Rewrites](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/google-deepmind-hassabis-chair-dean-discovery-loop) — Hassabis becomes Alphabet chief scientist and DeepMind chair; Jeff Dean exits to found Discovery Loop — Google control-plane rewrite.
- [Gemini Robotics 2: Whole-Body Control Is the Product Line—API Access Is Partial](https://timesof.ai/2026/07/google-gemini-robotics-2) — DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics 2 family adds whole-body control and multi-robot collab—productized demos, partial API access.
- [Lyria 3.5 in Flow Music: Tempo Control Over Head-to-Head Benches](https://timesof.ai/2026/07/google-lyria-3-5-flow-music) — Google’s Lyria 3.5 announcement focuses on Flow Music, vocal and lyric improvements, and tempo/duration controls. Performance claims are company-reported.
- [AI Employees Ask Washington to Develop International Pacing Tools](https://timesof.ai/2026/07/pacing-the-frontier-ai-employees-petition) — More than 1,100 AI employees sought U.S.-backed pacing tools, Reuters reported July 28; the statement proposes coordination rather than a binding freeze.
- [Google Launches Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite; Pro Remains in Partner Testing](https://timesof.ai/2026/07/google-gemini-3-6-flash-and-flash-lite) — Google introduced 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite for agentic workloads; Flash Cyber was a planned restricted pilot and 3.5 Pro remained in partner testing.
- [Gemini 3.5 Pro Months Behind: Coding Shortfall After a Public I/O Promise](https://timesof.ai/2026/07/google-gemini-3-5-pro-delay) — Google is months behind on Gemini 3.5 Pro after coding and performance goals fell short of internal targets—Bloomberg via Reuters.
- [DeepMind–Isomorphic Bioresilience: Defense Productized Across Prevent, Detect, Respond](https://timesof.ai/2026/07/google-deepmind-isomorphic-bioresilience) — DeepMind and Isomorphic detail a joint bioresilience approach—model safeguards, outbreak detection, and countermeasure design.
- [Stop the AI Race March: Legitimacy Outside the Same Offices Shipping Models](https://timesof.ai/2026/07/sf-stop-ai-race-protest-openai-anthropic-deepmind) — ~200 marched OpenAI→Anthropic→DeepMind demanding a frontier training pause—safety, jobs, housing, and existential risk in one SF coalition.
- [Gemini Omni Flash and Nano Banana 2 Lite: Media Stack, Not Another Text Frontier GA](https://timesof.ai/2026/06/google-gemini-omni-flash-nano-banana-2-lite) — Omni Flash video preview and Nano Banana 2 Lite image GA on June 30—~$0.034/1K image, ~4s latency; Omni at $0.10/sec. Media developer stack, not text GA.
- [AlphaFold Database Adds Millions of Complexes — Interaction Scale](https://timesof.ai/2026/03/alphafold-expands-to-protein-complexes-and-molecular-interactions) — AlphaFold Database adds millions of complex predictions incl. 1.7M high-confidence homodimers; EMBL-EBI/DeepMind/NVIDIA/SNU collaboration.