Who owns Google DeepMind?
Google DeepMind is owned by Alphabet (the United States, NASDAQ: GOOGL), which has owned the brand since 26 January 2014.[1]
Evidence: Alphabet Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-05, SEC EDGAR, 5 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Alphabet Inc. verified
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Mountain View, California
- Origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, London
- Founded
- 2010
- Category
- Internet & digital › Digital services › Productivity & developer tools
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: GOOGL
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Google DeepMind
DeepMind was founded in London in 2010 and acquired by Google in 2014 for a reported £400 million. Its AlphaGo program beat the world champion at Go in 2016, and its AlphaFold work on protein structure prediction shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
How often Alphabet names Google DeepMind in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Google DeepMind
Where Google DeepMind sits in Alphabet
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Other brands owned by Alphabet
Alphabet controls 13 brands on Brandtree, 13 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
- Android (2003)
- Fitbit (2007)
- Gmail (2004)
- Google Chrome (2008)
- Google Cloud (2008)
- Google Maps (2005)
- Google Nest (2010)
- Google Play (2008)
- Google Search (1998)
- Waymo (2009)
- Waze (2008)
- YouTube (2005)
Other brands in productivity & developer tools, and who owns them
The 32 brands in productivity & developer tools on Brandtree belong to 20 owners. The largest is Dropbox, with 6; Alphabet has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| DocSend | Dropbox | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Baidu Drive | Baidu | 🇨🇳 China |
| 4PS | Hilti | 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein |
| Angi | IAC | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Base44 | Wix | 🇮🇱 Israel |
| DingTalk | Alibaba | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong |
| Amazon Web Services | Amazon | 🇺🇸 United States |
| OpenTable | Booking Holdings | 🇺🇸 United States |
Every brand in productivity & developer tools and its owner →
About the owner: Alphabet
Alphabet is a publicly listed company headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States, founded in 1998. Brandtree records 13 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: GOOGL.
Alphabet was created in 2015 as a holding company above Google, separating the search and advertising business from ventures such as Waymo and Verily. Google itself was founded in 1998 by two Stanford graduate students, and advertising against search results still produces the overwhelming majority of the group's revenue.
🇬🇧 Google DeepMind and other British brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 552 brands that began in the United Kingdom. 291 of them (53%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Google DeepMind among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Google DeepMind?
The parent company of Google DeepMind is Alphabet, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Google DeepMind British or American?
Google DeepMind originated in the United Kingdom in 2010, but it is owned today by Alphabet, which is headquartered in the United States. So Google DeepMind is a British-origin brand under American ownership.
Since when has Alphabet owned Google DeepMind?
Alphabet has owned Google DeepMind since 26 January 2014.
Is Google DeepMind still owned by Alphabet?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Google DeepMind is still owned by Alphabet. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Alphabet Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-05 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 5 February 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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