Google's DeepMind Forms Health Unit to Build Medical Software

  • DeepMind Health division builds medical software with doctors
  • Life sciences is a major initiative of Google parent Alphabet
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Google’s DeepMind Technologies Ltd., an artificial intelligence company owned by the Web-search provider, is pushing into medical technology as it seeks to apply its expertise to health care.

DeepMind has built a reputation for creating cutting-edge self-learning software and is pitting its technology against the world’s best player of Go, a complex board game played in Asia, in a match next month.