Google is set to invest over $100 billion in AI, DeepMind founder says
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According to Demis Hassabis, the child prodigy who founded DeepMind, Google is likely to invest more than $100 billion in AI technology and applications in the near future. DeepMind is a British-American research laboratory that has been working on AI since 2010. Google acquired the company in 2014.Read Entire Article

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