Author @scmallaby says Demis Hassabis’ merger of Google Brain and DeepMind is a "textbook case in how to make a merger successful," and will be taught in business schools: "Everyone knows that mergers are hard, and when you do it with eight time zones between the two teams—one in London, one in California—and you're doing it in the middle of this knockdown, drag-out capitalist fight over building LLMs—most people said, 'This is going to fail.'" "They'd all say, 'Game over. OpenAI won.'" "The…