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DeepMind is Holding Back Release of AI Research To Give Google an Edge
Tuesday April 1, 2025. 06:48 PM , from Slashdot
![]() The changes represent a significant shift for DeepMind, which has long prided itself on its reputation for releasing groundbreaking papers and as a home for the best scientists building AI. Meanwhile, huge breakthroughs by Google researchers -- such as its 2017 'transformers' paper that provided the architecture behind large language models -- played a central role in creating today's boom in generative AI. Since then, DeepMind has become a central part of its parent company's drive to cash in on the cutting-edge technology, as investors expressed concern that the Big Tech group had ceded its early lead to the likes of ChatGPT maker OpenAI. 'I cannot imagine us putting out the transformer papers for general use now,' said one current researcher. Among the changes in the company's publication policies is a six-month embargo before 'strategic' papers related to generative AI are released. Researchers also often need to convince several staff members of the merits of publication, said two people with knowledge of the matter. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/01/1648250/deepmind-is-holding-back-release-of-ai-research-to-...
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