Instead, its founders contrived a completely new legal structure they called a global interest company or GIC. The idea was that DeepMind would become an organization that was more like a division of the United Nations, a transparent and responsible steward of AI for humanity’s sake. It would give Alphabet an exclusive license so that any AI breakthroughs DeepMind made that could support Google’s search business would flow to the technology giant. But DeepMind would spend the majority of its money, talent, and research on advancing its social mission, working on drug discovery and better
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