A person familiar with the matter said that because Suleiman was mainly concerned with health applications, and these were developed by Google, he did not have much to manage. There are reports that Suleiman’s frustration may be related to the controversy caused by DeepMind’s work in the health field.
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According to foreign media reports, just outside the speculation that Google’s artificial intelligence department DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman (Mustafa Suleyman) was overhead, now there is news that Suleiman is taking a long vacation .
For Suleiman’s vacation, DeepMind said that this was a joint decision between himself and Google’s parent company Alphabet. Just a few months before Suleiman decided to take a vacation, the DeepMind Health department led by Suleiman was transferred to a new Google health department in California.
In response, a spokesman for DeepMind said: “Suleiman is now taking a break after ten years of busy work.” The spokesman added that the company expects he will return at the end of the year.
The report said that it was not surprising for those who had worked closely with Suleiman and his DeepMind team. In November last year, when DeepMind’s spin-off was reported, Suleiman said he would no longer be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the health team, but would serve as a member of the Google Health team’s strategic board of directors and provide advice.
A person familiar with the matter said that because Suleiman is mainly concerned with health applications, and these are developed by Google, he has little to manage. There are reports that Suleiman’s frustration may be related to the controversy caused by DeepMind’s work in the health field.
DeepMind Health’s first product is a mobile app called “Streams” originally designed to help doctors identify patients at risk for acute kidney injury. But the UK data privacy regulator said in July 2017 that DeepMind’s partner in the project, Royal Free Hospital, illegally provided 1.6 million patient records to DeepMind. In this regard, Suleiman also issued a statement an apology.
In November 2018, Google announced the management and development of Streams to be taken over by the newly formed Google Health Department. At the same time, the DeepMind Health brand was abandoned and Suleiman was removed from the day-to-day operations management.
Google’s move has indeed received good results. Since then, the Streams app has been highly praised by hospital administrators and is believed to greatly speed up diagnostics.
DeepMind is the artificial intelligence division that Google acquired in 2014 for £400 million ($497 million) and is currently building a series of intelligent computer systems that can learn and think for themselves. In 2016, DeepMind’s artificial intelligence program AlphaGo defeated the world champion and Korean Go master Li Shishi, and then became famous.
According to 2018 financial data submitted to the UK “Companies House”, London-based DeepMind posted a net loss of 470.2 million pounds ($572 million) last year, up from 302.2 million in 2017. GBP. Revenue was £102.8 million, nearly double the £54.4 million in 2017.
DeepMind’s staff expenses last year were 398 million pounds, nearly double the number in 2017. In addition, the document also shows that DeepMind has 1.04 billion pounds of debt due this year, of which 883 million pounds of debt is the parent company Alphabet.