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title: "X Development: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "X Development LLC, doing business as 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."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-x-development
type: Organization
wikidata: Q133928
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Development
website: https://x.company/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# X Development

> X Development LLC, doing business as 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.

Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-x-development

## Facts

- Category: Research lab
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2010-01-01
- Headquarters: Mountain View
- Status: subsidiary
- Website: https://x.company/
- Also known as: Google X, Google X Lab, Google[x]
- Industries: research and development

## Key people

- Sebastian Thrun, founder (German-American entrepreneur (born 1967))
- Guifré Vidal (physicist)

## Ownership

Parent: [Alphabet Inc.](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-alphabet-inc.md)

## Products

- artificial intelligence

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on X Development, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-x-development#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133928, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Development

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