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by tcai 3451 days ago
Yes - they are independent groups with separate projects in different locations (Brain is in Mountain View, DeepMind in London).
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Is there an easy way of characterizing the difference between the two groups - eg brain focuses on A, deepmind focuses on B?
We don't have a simple separation of concerns like that. Brain and DeepMind share a common vision around advancing the state of the art in machine learning in order to have a positive impact on the world. Because machine intelligence is such a huge area, it is useful to have multiple large teams doing research in this area (unlike two product teams making the same product, two research teams in the same area just produces more good research). We follow each other's work and collaborate on a number of projects, although timezone differences sometimes make this hard. I am personally collaborating on a project with a colleague at DeepMind that is a lot of fun to work on.

Disclosure: I work for Google on the Brain team.