Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping aside

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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping aside

Google's AI organization is undergoing a profound change as the company struggles to keep pace with OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Sundar Pichai

Just shared some changes we’re making to the teams at @GoogleDeepMind.

@DemisHassabis is stepping up to become Chair of @GoogleDeepMind & Chief Scientist of Alphabet, in addition to leading @IsomorphicLabs. He’ll be able to dedicate his time and focus on shaping the future of AGI and scientific discovery. It’s work that is vitally important to Alphabet and humanity, and I can’t imagine a better person than Demis to do it. He’ll stay closely connected to Koray and the GDM teams.

@Koraykv will become the SVP, @GoogleDeepMind, responsible for all aspects of model development, GDM research, and @Geminiapp & dev teams. Koray has been at GDM for 13 years and is a world-renowned expert in the field, starting our deep learning team and driving breakthroughs like WaveNet & DQN. GDM is in great hands!

Excited for this next chapter. You can read my note along with the message Demis sent to @GoogleDeepMind here: https://t.co/mvsvrDUai7

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Sebastian Mallaby

My column on @demishassabis in The Times.

—Given his record of caring about AI safety and impact, people should err on the side of believing his own explanation for stepping back from management. When we spoke a lot last year, he gave me the sense that this moment might come.

—Gemini is behind for now, and several famous names have quit the AI research team. But Google has deep commercial strengths. And technical progress probably depends on young cutting edge researchers who are yet to be famous.

https://t.co/1T9cbEG6xs