Google Completes Talent Deal for AI Agents Startup Mechanize
Google completed a talent deal with San Francisco startup Mechanize, bringing co-founder and ex-CEO Tamay Besiroglu to DeepMind as a research scientist and hiring over a dozen former Mechanize employees. The deal follows prior talks for a $1.5 billion-plus agreement, with final terms undisclosed and structured to limit antitrust scrutiny. Mechanize’s tech supports better AI coding performance, helping Google’s chatbot efforts.