DeepMind's secret mafia: Meet the stealth startups emerging from Google's AI lab
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Abstraction: Wave of ex-DeepMind researchers launching stealth AI startups in 2022-2023
Key points:
- ~200 ex-DeepMind staffers have founded startups; ~12 were in stealth mode as of mid-2023
- Mustafa Suleyman (DeepMind co-founder) launched Inflection AI, raising $1.3 billion led by Microsoft and Nvidia
- Mistral AI, founded by a DeepMind alum, raised $113 million seed from Lightspeed just four weeks after launch
- Startups span materials science (Orbital Materials — carbon capture), generative biology (Latent Labs), and sales AI (Glyphic)
- DeepMind executives serve as prolific angel investors into alumni startups; Suleyman backed at least 10 AI startups
- Stealth mode valued for building headstart before revealing product and for managing investor expectations
Connections: Deepmind · Inflection AI · Mistral · Mustafa Suleyman · Generative AI · AI Startups
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/stealth-ai-startups-emerge-from-google-deepmind-2023-7