In about five years, the institutions that still define artificial intelligence were all founded or captured. Two were stood up, two were bought, and one was created expressly to be a counterweight to the rest.
SOURCE · NEURON MAKERS, CHS. 6, 7, 12. DeepMind acquisition price never stated precisely; the chapter gives a range of roughly $500M–$650M (reports ran ~$400M to over $600M; a sum near £400M).