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| 2011 || {{dts|November 13}} || || A ''{{W|New York Times}}'' article from this day covering {{W|Google X}} mentions that {{W|Andrew Ng}} is at Google X.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/14/technology/at-google-x-a-top-secret-lab-dreaming-up-the-future.html |date=November 13, 2011 |publisher=[[wikipedia:The New York Times|The New York Times]] |title=At Google X, a Top-Secret Lab Dreaming Up the Future |first1=Claire Cain |last1=Miller |first2=Nick |last2=Bilton |accessdate=May 12, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{dts|December}} || || {{W|Ray Kurzweil}} joins Google as a director of engineering.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/14/ray-kurzweil-joins-google-as-engineering-director-focusing-on-machine-learning-and-language-tech/ |first=Colleen |last=Taylor |date=December 15, 2012 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=Ray Kurzweil Joins Google In Full-Time Engineering Director Role; Will Focus On Machine Learning, Language Processing |accessdate=May 13, 2018}}</ref> When asked whether he is trying to build an artificial "Google Brain" as part of {{W|Jeff Dean}}'s program, Kurzweil replies that "Jeff Dean is one of my collaborators".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/2013/04/kurzweil-google-ai/ |title=How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the Ultimate AI Brain |date=April 25, 2013 |first=Steven |last=Levy |publisher=[[wikipedia:WIRED|WIRED]] |accessdate=May 13, 2018}}</ref> It's not clear whether he was actually part of what would become Google Brain.
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| 2012 || {{Dts|June 26}} || || A blog post by {{W|Jeff Dean}} and {{W|Andrew Ng}} is published on the official Google blog. The post covers work done by the two at Google. The post does not mention a "Google Brain" (either as a project name or a team name), but it seems that this work turned into the Google Brain project.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/using-large-scale-brain-simulations-for.html |title=Using large-scale brain simulations for machine learning and A.I. |first1=Jeff |last1=Dean |first2=Andrew |last2=Ng |publisher=Official Google Blog |accessdate=May 12, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{Dts|March}} || || Google hires {{W|Geoffrey Hinton}} and acquires DNNresearch Inc., the neural networks company started by Hinton and two of his graduate students, Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://media.utoronto.ca/media-releases/u-of-t-neural-networks-start-up-acquired-by-google/ |date=March 12, 2013 |author=U of T Media |title=Media Room & Blue Book – University of Toronto |accessdate=May 13, 2018}}</ref> The news reporting does not mention what Hinton would be working on at Google, but presumably he joined what would become Google Brain.
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| 2016 || {{dts|April 8}} || || The Google Brain team page is shared on {{W|Hacker News}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11451916 |title=Google Brain Team |website=Hacker News |accessdate=May 12, 2018}}</ref> This is possibly the first verifiable date on which "Google Brain" is used as a team name.
