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Has Deepmind ever released how many employees it has? Several thousand seems much larger than I would have thought. Please cite your source on that.

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Here's a June 2020 article that says they have ~1,000 people: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/05/google-deepmind-alphago-buzz...

At first it sounded like a lot but when I remembered by FAMANG org of similar size it's actually not that big. A 1000 people org probably nets you around 15-30 teams which have to include frontend, backend, infra, theory, experimental, internal tooling etc. I guess the biggest question is how many people in deepmind are sales/consulting etc. Do they have any external for profit contracts?

There’s the rub. Depending on who you ask DeepMind appears to, as of a year or two ago, be running deep in the red.

DeepMind will always be a loss center. That's what research groups are.

I don't know how UK R&D tax works, but most countries allow companies to write off some profits against R&D. Apart from the fact Google wants to do research, having a large center based in the UK probably helps their UK (and formerly EU?) tax position.

How would DeepMind get any revenue? I thought it was solely for research.

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