Institutional dossier
The documented history of Google Brain: chronology, people, research, capital and compute, and governance. Every statement opens its source and its limits.
Records dated 2011 to 2026-10-15 · 22 undated
81 claims · 47 sources · 81 not editorially accepted. The counts describe this selection. They do not measure completeness or independent confirmation.
Scope, evidence and limits
Description: The Brain team within Google Research, named in the 2023 Google DeepMind combination.
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2011Record year · 4 claims
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Internship, not a permanent research appointment; no mentorship or influence edge inferred.
Retrospective biography places an internship in this year; no month/day or full-year tenure inferred.
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A retrospective organisational statement; it does not name founders or give a month.
Year as stated by Google DeepMind's undated organisation page.
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Establishes only where Brain started according to Google DeepMind; when it moved to Google Research is not stated.
The start year as stated; the source does not say how long Brain remained within X.
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A retrospective appointment biography supplies the prior interval; the April 2024 publication and Amazon appointment dates are not tenure dates.
The biographical source explicitly gives both years. No precise start/end days or later continuing role are inferred.
2017Record year · 8 claims
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Internship, not permanent employment or evidence of intellectual transmission. The linked résumé explicitly labels the role Research Intern and dates it Summer 2017; the year-precision snapshot is retained without invented month boundaries.
Retrospective internship year; no full-year tenure or day precision inferred.
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Paper affiliation only; no full employment interval, sole invention or Google DeepMind appointment is inferred.
Source-dated snapshot; no start, end or continuing role is inferred.
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An author affiliation on a dated paper; it does not establish a title or tenure.
arXiv v1 submission date.
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An author affiliation on a dated paper; it does not establish a title or tenure.
arXiv v1 submission date.
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The footnote marker (†) on Gomez’s name links him to the note; the paper does not give a title or dates for his time at Google Brain.
arXiv v1 submission date; the footnote describes work done for the paper, not an employment interval.
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Internal research-team identity, not a separate legal company or an acquisition. No full membership interval is reconstructed.
Snapshot at the dated source announcement; no employment interval or current appointment is inferred.
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Team membership is explicitly stated in the article body. No precise job rank or continuing role is inferred.
Team-membership snapshot in a dated institutional account; no full employment interval is inferred.
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A shared author affiliation; it does not establish a title or dates of employment.
arXiv v1 submission date; an affiliation snapshot, not an employment interval.
2018Record year · 1 claims
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The record rests on a speaker biography published by a university department. It does not establish when Dean began to lead the team or when the role ended.
Date of the lecture the announcement describes; the page’s own publication date is not shown. Not a start date.
2019Record year · 2 claims
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Retrospective CV; internship/student status is retained. Separate entries are not merged into continuous employment.
CV gives month-precision boundaries; no days or permanent employment inferred.
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Retrospective CV; internship/student status is retained. Separate entries are not merged into continuous employment.
CV gives month-precision boundaries; no days or permanent employment inferred.
2023Record year · 1 claims
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The source identifies a research team; this record does not treat Brain as a separate legal company.
The date identifies this documented announcement or publication; it does not establish a continuing state.
Date unknownRecord year · 7 claims
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Do not assign all six years to Google Brain or equate predecessor DeepMind with Google DeepMind. Institutional boundary dates within this entry remain unresolved.
The source gives 2018–2024 to a combined Google Brain / DeepMind entry; it does not divide the tenure between the institutions.
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The page gives no dates, title or employment form (internship or staff). The same page says he is “working on a startup” without naming Moonshot AI.
Undated statement on a mutable personal page read on 2026-10-15; no dates or position given.
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A self-description on an undated personal page; dates and title are not established.
The undated page gives no dates for this role.
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The record rests on reporting (TechCrunch). The report names Google Brain and DeepMind together and does not date the role or separate the two units; it does not establish when he left Google.
Retrospective report; no dates are given for the role.
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The record rests on a speaker biography published by a university department, not on a Google document. Jeff Dean’s Google Research profile returned HTTP 404 on 15 October 2026 and could not be checked; no archive capture could be retrieved. The record does not establish the date, the other co-founders or the terms of the founding.
The biography gives no founding date; Google DeepMind’s organisation page dates Google Brain’s start to 2011 (recorded separately).
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A first-person retrospective on an undated page. It names Google Brain and Google DeepMind together, gives no title or dates and does not establish whether the role was full-time.
Retrospective first-person statement; no dates are given.
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A company biography of its own co-founder; it does not establish dates or a formal title for the team-lead role.
Undated company biography; no dates are given.