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Google reshuffles AI leadership as Jeff Dean leaves after 27 years
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…
The Story in Brief
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.
The Indian Opinion
The lazy reading is that Hassabis has been pushed aside, while the opposite camp may portray every departure as proof that Google is losing the AI race. Neither follows from these announcements. Hassabis retains a senior Alphabet role, and Google is backing Dean’s venture. The practical test is whether DeepMind can keep top researchers and turn its AI ambitions into products that improve revenue, reliability and user choice over the next year.
Sources (2): thehindu.com, ndtvprofit.com
This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above.
Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources.
