Demis Hassabis and Jeff Dean Lead Google AI Restructuring FAST-MOVING
Alphabet announced a major reshuffle of its artificial‑intelligence division. Demis Hassabis, co‑founder and former CEO of Google DeepMind, will step down from day‑to‑day management to become Chair of DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, focusing on the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Koray Kavukcuoglu, the unit’s chief technology officer, will assume operational control as senior vice‑president, overseeing the Gemini model program.
Jeff Dean, Google’s chief scientist for 27 years, is leaving the company together with senior engineer Sanjay Ghemawat and researchers Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le to launch Discovery Loop, a public‑benefit corporation backed by Alphabet as a founding investor and cloud‑services partner. Alphabet shares fell 4‑5 % after the announcement. The Gemini app now reports roughly 950 million monthly active users.
Entities: Demis Hassabis · Discovery Loop · Gemini · Jeff Dean · Koray Kavukcuoglu · Sundar Pichai
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- [● 9 SOURCES] Koray Kavukcuoglu will become senior vice‑president of Google DeepMind, taking operational control of Gemini development. (new)
- [● 5 SOURCES] Alphabet shares fell about 4‑5 % after the AI leadership announcement. (new)
- [● 11 SOURCES] Jeff Dean is leaving Google after 27 years to co‑found Discovery Loop, a public‑benefit corporation. (new)
- [● 11 SOURCES] Demis Hassabis will become Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet. (new)
- [● 9 SOURCES] Demis Hassabis cited the proximity of artificial general intelligence (AGI) as the reason for his role change. (new)
- [● 3 SOURCES] The Gemini app has reached roughly 950 million monthly active users. (new)
- [● 5 SOURCES] Discovery Loop is co‑founded by Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le, with Alphabet as a founding investor and cloud partner. (new)