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| 2012 || December || Acquisition || {{w|Facebook}} reportedly fails to acquire DeepMind, according to {{w|Forbes}}.<ref name="Google buys UK artificial intelligence startup Deepmind for £400m">{{cite web |title=Google buys UK artificial intelligence startup Deepmind for £400m |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/27/google-acquires-uk-artificial-intelligence-startup-deepmind |website=theguardian.com |accessdate=29 May 2019}}</ref> DeepMind talks with Facebook about the acquisition happen around the time.<ref name="Google DeepMind"/>
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| 2013 || December || {{w|AI}} development || DeepMind reveals having developed an AI algorithm able to learn how to play iconic early video games like [[w:Breakout (video game)|Breakout]] and {{w|Pong}} simply by watching them being played on a vintage 1977 Atari 2600 games console. Having surmised The algorithm deduces the rules and rewards from the way the pixels were are batted about the screen, the algorithm then it is then able to beat human opponents at playing the games.<ref name="Google buys AI firm DeepMind to boost image search">{{cite web |title=Google buys AI firm DeepMind to boost image search |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24946-google-buys-ai-firm-deepmind-to-boost-image-search/ |website=newscientist.com |accessdate=28 May 2019}}</ref>
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| 2013 || December || Team || DeepMind reportedly has around 75 employees.<ref name="Google DeepMind">{{cite web |title=Google To Acquire Artificial Intelligence Company DeepMind |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2014/01/27/google-to-acquire-artificial-intelligence-company-deepmind/#2d9358fa15b5 |website=forbes.com |accessdate=29 May 2019}}</ref>
