Search Search Google buys UK artificial intelligence start-up DeepMind for £400m London-based company focused on “cutting edge artificial intelligence" could supply the brains for Google's burgeoning robotics division 6169789578 Click to follow The Independent Tech A former child chess prodigy and computer game designer from London has sold his company to Google for around £300m in one of the Internet giant’s largest European acquisitions.
 Demis Hassabis, a computer scientist, is understood to have struck the deal with Google for his secretive start-up business Deep Mind Technologies, which specialises in artificial intelligence (AI) for computers.
 Hassabis, 37, has built the company by bringing together neuroscientists and computer engineers in an effort to use technology and medical research to help machines to mimic the brain’s ability to improve performance.