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Google DeepMind from founding to now: its own record, public attention and milestones

Google DeepMind month by month, 1,674 Hacker News stories naming it, funding rounds, lawsuits and the IPO filing on one time axis, and which teams publish what.

Birth to now

Jan 2014 to Oct 2026
PUBLIC ATTENTION: HACKER NEWS STORIES NAMING IT, A MONTH (PEAK 43)Jan 2014: 9 storiesFeb 2014: 1 storiesSep 2014: 1 storiesOct 2014: 9 storiesNov 2014: 3 storiesDec 2014: 1 storiesJan 2015: 2 storiesFeb 2015: 9 storiesMar 2015: 2 storiesMay 2015: 2 storiesJun 2015: 7 storiesJul 2015: 2 storiesAug 2015: 3 storiesSep 2015: 2 storiesOct 2015: 2 storiesNov 2015: 2 storiesDec 2015: 1 storiesJan 2016: 10 storiesFeb 2016: 21 storiesMar 2016: 43 storiesApr 2016: 8 storiesMay 2016: 3 storiesJun 2016: 12 storiesJul 2016: 17 storiesAug 2016: 4 storiesSep 2016: 14 storiesOct 2016: 5 storiesNov 2016: 17 storiesDec 2016: 13 storiesJan 2017: 9 storiesFeb 2017: 12 storiesMar 2017: 40 storiesApr 2017: 12 storiesMay 2017: 7 storiesJun 2017: 17 storiesJul 2017: 39 storiesAug 2017: 13 storiesSep 2017: 3 storiesOct 2017: 14 storiesNov 2017: 6 storiesDec 2017: 17 storiesJan 2018: 5 storiesFeb 2018: 5 storiesMar 2018: 11 storiesApr 2018: 8 storiesMay 2018: 10 storiesJun 2018: 10 storiesJul 2018: 19 storiesAug 2018: 20 storiesSep 2018: 10 storiesOct 2018: 5 storiesNov 2018: 11 storiesDec 2018: 21 storiesJan 2019: 23 storiesFeb 2019: 15 storiesMar 2019: 13 storiesApr 2019: 7 storiesMay 2019: 7 storiesJun 2019: 11 storiesJul 2019: 13 storiesAug 2019: 30 storiesSep 2019: 12 storiesOct 2019: 12 storiesNov 2019: 11 storiesDec 2019: 14 storiesJan 2020: 12 storiesFeb 2020: 2 storiesMar 2020: 5 storiesApr 2020: 8 storiesMay 2020: 8 storiesJun 2020: 10 storiesJul 2020: 10 storiesAug 2020: 5 storiesSep 2020: 3 storiesOct 2020: 6 storiesNov 2020: 12 storiesDec 2020: 35 storiesJan 2021: 3 storiesFeb 2021: 2 storiesMar 2021: 3 storiesApr 2021: 2 storiesMay 2021: 10 storiesJun 2021: 11 storiesJul 2021: 17 storiesAug 2021: 11 storiesSep 2021: 10 storiesOct 2021: 19 storiesNov 2021: 3 storiesDec 2021: 17 storiesJan 2022: 5 storiesFeb 2022: 22 storiesMar 2022: 21 storiesApr 2022: 4 storiesMay 2022: 26 storiesJun 2022: 2 storiesJul 2022: 22 storiesAug 2022: 5 storiesSep 2022: 15 storiesOct 2022: 15 storiesNov 2022: 1 storiesDec 2022: 17 storiesJan 2023: 18 storiesFeb 2023: 9 storiesMar 2023: 2 storiesApr 2023: 16 storiesMay 2023: 9 storiesJun 2023: 27 storiesJul 2023: 8 storiesAug 2023: 6 storiesSep 2023: 15 storiesOct 2023: 11 storiesNov 2023: 23 storiesDec 2023: 18 storiesJan 2024: 16 storiesFeb 2024: 9 storiesMar 2024: 16 storiesApr 2024: 10 storiesMay 2024: 17 storiesJun 2024: 9 storiesJul 2024: 8 storiesAug 2024: 9 storiesSep 2024: 3 storiesOct 2024: 9 storiesNov 2024: 7 storiesDec 2024: 10 storiesJan 2025: 10 storiesFeb 2025: 8 storiesMar 2025: 4 storiesApr 2025: 21 storiesMay 2025: 13 storiesJun 2025: 10 storiesJul 2025: 17 storiesAug 2025: 6 storiesSep 2025: 15 storiesOct 2025: 11 storiesNov 2025: 17 storiesDec 2025: 15 storiesJan 2026: 15 storiesFeb 2026: 11 storiesMar 2026: 13 storiesApr 2026: 13 storiesMay 2026: 20 storiesJun 2026: 11 storiesJul 2026: 12 storiesAug 2026: 27 storiesSep 2026: 14 storiesOct 2026: 10 stories2014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Attention counts stories whose title names it on Hacker News (query: DeepMind); a few early ones may use the word another way.

On Hacker News

most discussed
  1. DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones ↗8 Aug 2026 · 449 points · 128 comments · links to deepmind.google
  2. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs ↗5 Aug 2026 · 867 points · 933 comments · links to blog.google
  3. Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind ↗5 Aug 2026 · 371 points · 1 comments · links to axios.com
  4. Why I Left Google DeepMind ↗15 Jul 2026 · 390 points · 170 comments · links to turntrout.com
  5. Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims DeepMind co-founder ↗15 Oct 2023 · 390 points · 379 comments · links to telegraph.co.uk
  6. Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep RL ↗7 Jun 2023 · 783 points · 318 comments · links to nature.com
  7. Google DeepMind ↗20 Apr 2023 · 689 points · 626 comments · links to deepmind.com
  8. DeepMind: A Generalist Agent ↗12 May 2022 · 502 points · 337 comments · links to deepmind.com

Public discussion, not the company's words; threads with the most points that name it in the title.

Every figure on this page comes from a named document with the exact sentence it was taken from; open “Exact text in the source” under any line. People appear in public roles from the company's own filings and pages. Not investment advice.