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On 6 November 2025 Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced a Biohub initiative pairing frontier AI with frontier biology; the EvolutionaryScale team joined it, and its chief scientist Alex Rives became Biohub's head of science.
Recursion completed its combination with Exscientia on 20 November 2024, making the AI drug discovery company a wholly-owned subsidiary and folding its pipeline, sites and leadership into a single organisation.
On 9 June 2017 SoftBank Group announced that a subsidiary had agreed to buy Boston Dynamics from Alphabet, together with the Japanese bipedal-robotics company Schaft. The terms were not disclosed.
On 26 January 2014 Google confirmed its acquisition of DeepMind, the London AI company founded in 2010. The deal brought a small deep-learning research group known for Atari-playing systems into Google and set up a unit later merged with Google Brain.
In December 2013 Google confirmed it had completed its acquisition of Boston Dynamics, the eighth robotics company it had bought in six months, as part of a robotics effort led by Andy Rubin.
In March 2013 the University of Toronto announced that Google had acquired DNNresearch, a start-up incorporated in 2012 by Geoffrey Hinton and two of his graduate students for work on deep neural networks.
