{"id":1035235,"date":"2026-09-14T11:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T05:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035235"},"modified":"2026-09-14T14:05:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T08:35:55","slug":"as-google-completes-1-5-billion-plus-deal-for-ai-startup-mechanize-its-co-founder-joins-company-as-research-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/14\/as-google-completes-1-5-billion-plus-deal-for-ai-startup-mechanize-its-co-founder-joins-company-as-research-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"As Google completes $1.5 billion-plus deal for AI startup Mechanize, its co-founder joins company as research scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has completed its deal with San Francisco-based AI startup Mechanize, bringing the startup\u2019s co-founder and former CEO Tamay Besiroglu into Google DeepMind as a research scientist, according to public postings. The move gives Google fresh AI talent as the company continues to compete in the fast-moving artificial intelligence race. More than a dozen other former Mechanize employees have also joined Google, according to their LinkedIn profiles. Many of them are now working on Google\u2019s \u201cmidtraining\u201d efforts, an important part of developing and improving AI models.<\/p>\n<p>Google brings Mechanize co-founder into DeepMind<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has completed its deal with San Francisco-based AI startup Mechanize, bringing the startup\u2019s co-founder and former CEO Tamay Besiroglu into Google DeepMind as a research scientist, according to public postings. The move gives Google fresh AI talent as the company continues to compete in the fast-moving artificial intelligence race. More than a dozen other former Mechanize employees have also joined Google, according to their LinkedIn profiles. Many of them are now working on Google\u2019s \u201cmidtraining\u201d efforts, an important part of developing and improving AI models. Google brings Mechanize co-founder into DeepMind<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035235","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035236,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035235\/revisions\/1035236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}