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BUYING DEEPMIND

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Google bought DeepMind for $650 million at the end of January 2014. It poured billions into DeepMind's research, but it took a decade for the quest for superintelligence to go into overdrive. This article tells the inside story of how Google ended up purchasing the startup and the specific terms of the final deal.