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Google shakes up AI leadership. Demis Hassabis takes on broader research role, and Jeff Dean leaves.
Some of Google's top AI leaders are leaving their roles, with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis taking another role at Alphabet and Jeff Dean leaving.
TL;DR
- Demis Hassabis is transitioning from CEO of DeepMind to a broader AI research role at Alphabet.
- Koray Kavukcuoglu will now lead DeepMind, reporting to Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
- Jeff Dean, a prominent AI researcher, is leaving Google to co-found his own initiative called Discovery Loop.
- Google aims to accelerate its AI frontier work and shape the future of AGI.
- The company has faced delays with its AI models, trailing behind competitors like Anthropic and OpenAI.
- Google is reportedly in talks to invest over $1.5 billion in AI coding startup Mechanize.