X Development
Sign in to saveAlso known as Google X, Google X Lab, Google[x]
semi-secret research and development company by Alphabet Inc.
Key facts
- Trade name
- X
- Formerly
- Google X (2010–2015)
- Company type
- Division
- Industry
- Research and development
- Founded
- January 2010 ; 16 years ago ( 2010-01 )
- Founders
- Sebastian Thrun Yoky Matsuoka
- Headquarters
- Mountain View, California , United States
- Key people
- Astro Teller ( CEO )
- Products
- Artificial intelligence Computational neuroscience Health care Biotechnology
- Parent
- Google (2010–2015; 2022–present) Alphabet (2015–2022)
- Subsidiaries
- Subsidiaries SCHAFT Industrial Perception Redwood Robotics Meka Robotics Holomni Bot & Dolly Autofuss Jetpac Gecko Design Flutter DNNresearch
- Website
- x .company
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
X Development LLC, doing business as X (formerly Google X), is an American semi-secret research and development facility and organization founded by Google in January 2010. X has its headquarters about a mile and a half from Google's corporate headquarters, the Googleplex, in Mountain View, California.
According to an official blog post from the company, X's mission is to "invent and launch 'moonshot' technologies that [they] hope could make the world a radically better place." A moonshot is defined by X as the intersection of a big problem, a radical solution, and breakthrough technology. Work at X is overseen by entrepreneur scientist Astro Teller, as CEO and "Captain of Moonshots". The lab started with the development of Google's self-driving car.
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