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Re:DeepMind in “very early stage” talks with National Grid t... by samblr on Monday March 20, 2017 @08:41AM (#13913584)
>> Google PR to justify how much they spent on DeepMind - why would google try justifying for Deep mind and not to other tens-to-hundreds of companies it acquires in a year ?
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Re:DeepMind in “very early stage” talks with National Grid t... by backpropaganda on Monday March 20, 2017 @06:27PM (#13918202)
DeepMind's expenditure is probably upwards of $1bn/year.
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Re:DeepMind in “very early stage” talks with National Grid t... by cercatrova on Monday March 20, 2017 @07:55PM (#13918666)
What costs do they have that would be one billion a year? I can understand servers and salary for the researchers but not to the scale of 9 figures a year.
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