Google’s UK-based artificial intelligence unit DeepMind lost half a billion pounds last year, a similar figure to 2018, and its parent company Alphabet wrote off a further £1.1bn in debt, according to its latest accounts.
The figures underline the huge investment that Google continues to make in the London-based AI team that it acquired in 2014 for about £400m, with the most talented machine-learning researchers able to command huge salaries.
DeepMind’s revenues,…
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