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Alphabet Winds Down Mineral, Licenses Ag Technology to Berry Producer Driscoll’s
The company no longer has a place for all of its moonshot startups
Driscoll's strawberries wait to be packaged for shipment.
Photographer: Tim BoyleAlphabet Inc. is licensing some technology from its agriculture startup Mineral to berry producer Driscoll’s Inc. as it winds down the nascent firm’s operations.
Mineral is one of the most prominent companies to emerge from Alphabet’s moonshot technology lab, X, the birthplace of inventions such as Google Glass and the artificial intelligence hub Google Brain.