Google disclosed its acquisition of DeepMind Technologies, the London AI research company. Terms were not officially released, but the price was reported at more than $500 million, with some accounts putting it between $400 and $600 million; Google CEO Larry Page was said to have led the negotiations. DeepMind had no product, but its work training deep reinforcement learning agents to play Atari games had drawn notice. Reporting at the time said Google agreed as part of the deal to establish an ethics board to guard against misuse of AI technology. The lab retained substantial independence and stayed in London, going on to produce AlphaGo in 2016 and AlphaFold2 in 2020. In 2023 it merged with Google Brain to become Google DeepMind, the group behind Gemini.