Ask HN: Is DeepMind better than everyone else?

3 points by amichail ↗ HN

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In what context/problem domain? In general? No
Have they released any actual products?
Even if they haven't, AlphaFold itself has solidly cemented their place in history. I think they made a spinoff to commercialize it.
Adjacent question - what specific methods and techniques have DeepMind contributed to the field? Deep reinforcement learning? (Didn't they stop using it at some point?) What else?