Deepmind is more focused on general AI (AGI) than the game of Go. The AGI community has always considered beating a Go champion to be a significant milestone to

Deepmind is more focused on general AI (AGI) than the game of Go. The AGI community has always considered beating a Go champion to be a significant milestone towards AGI, and it was expected to be years in the future. Now that Deepmind won that battle, there's little PR benefit - or benefit to AGI progress - to focusing on go. I don't mean to slight the game of Go, but it is a perfect information game which could make it non-central to AGI research.