# Google reshuffles AI leadership as Jeff Dean leaves after 27 years 2026-08-07T05:45:11+00:00 | Technology | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Google is reshuffling its senior artificial intelligence leadership. Demis Hassabis will become Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, while its Chief Technology Officer Koray Kavukcuoglu is set to become DeepMind’s senior vice-president, reporting to CEO Sundar Pichai. Jeff Dean, Google DeepMind and Google Research’s Chief Scientist, is leaving after 27 years to start a new venture with former colleagues. The Hindu reports that Dean’s venture will be a public benefit corporation backed by Google as a founding investor and Cloud partner. NDTV Profit says Dean is leaving with Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals to build a startup called Discovery. Other recent departures include researchers joining Anthropic and OpenAI, adding to uncertainty around Google’s AI talent strategy. ## Coverage - thehindu.com - ndtvprofit.com Tags: AI talent, Artificial intelligence, Google, Google DeepMind Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/google-reshuffles-ai-leadership-as-senior-researchers-leave/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/google-reshuffles-ai-leadership-as-senior-researchers-leave/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.