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Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent company Alphabet, announced in a post on its official website that the company will merge two AI labs, Google Brain and DeepMind, to form a new division, Google DeepMind.

Geoffrey Hinton, one of the "deep learning triumvirate" and 2018 Turing Award winner, has revealed that he has left Google.

Just three months ago, Microsoft Bing was still dispensable and lacked presence in users' minds, but now it has made a strong comeback with the power of AI, directly challenging Google's dominant position in the industry.