{"id":1008838,"date":"2026-05-20T09:35:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008838"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:38:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:08:49","slug":"google-deepmind-hires-staff-from-contextual-ai-in-licensing-deal-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/20\/google-deepmind-hires-staff-from-contextual-ai-in-licensing-deal-source-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Google DeepMind hires staff from Contextual AI in licensing deal, source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet&#8217;s AI research subsidiary, Google DeepMind, has agreed to recruit more than 20 researchers from AI startup Contextual AI and license its technology, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Alphabet paid between $80 million and $90 million to Contextual as part of the agreement, and Contextual&#8217;s co-founder and \u200cCEO Douwe Kiela \u2060is \u2060among those joining DeepMind, according to the source. <\/p>\n<p>Google declined to comment and Contextual did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet&#8217;s AI research subsidiary, Google DeepMind, has agreed to recruit more than 20 researchers from AI startup Contextual AI and license its technology, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. Alphabet paid between $80 million and $90 million to Contextual as part of the agreement, and Contextual&#8217;s co-founder and \u200cCEO Douwe Kiela \u2060is \u2060among those joining DeepMind, according to the source. Google declined to comment and Contextual did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008860,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008838\/revisions\/1008860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}