Google DeepMind, set up in 2010 by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and Mustafa Suleyman, is a British-American AI research laboratory headquartered in London, UK, with research centers in the US, Canada, France, Germany, and Switzerland. Acquired by Google in 2014 for ~$500M and merged with Google Brain in 2023 to form Google DeepMind, it is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. The lab develops AI models like Gemini 2.5 Pro (coding and reasoning), AlphaFold (protein structure prediction), and AlphaCode (competitive programming). Its robotics efforts include Gemini Robotics for next-generation robots and TacticAI for sports analytics.