Google Overhauls AI Leadership as Jeff Dean Leaves for Startup
The company named Koray Kavukcuoglu to run daily AI operations as Demis Hassabis shifts to chairman and chief scientist.
- On Wednesday, Alphabet announced a major leadership overhaul of its AI division, triggering a 4% selloff in shares to $361 in afternoon trading.
- DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis transitions to Alphabet chief scientist and chairman, while technology chief Koray Kavukcuoglu assumes day-to-day operations; longtime chief scientist Jeff Dean and three senior colleagues depart simultaneously.
- Dean and colleagues are launching Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation focused on science and engineering, with Alphabet serving as founding investor and cloud partner.
- Investors fear the reshuffle signals a "brain drain" at a delicate moment, as Google trails rivals OpenAI and Anthropic; the flagship Gemini model remains unreleased despite a planned June launch.
- Despite Wednesday's drop, Alphabet shares remain up 16% year to date; market attention shifts to the Gemini Pro release, which prediction markets place at 76% probability by August 31.
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Google Grapples With Exit of AI Pioneer and 'Most Google Person'
Days after Google unveiled its first Gemini chatbot in 2023 to compete with ChatGPT, Jeff Dean went to an AI conference where he was promptly swarmed by attendees. Suddenly, the Google executive looked at his watch and realized he was due to give a talk minutes later, spurring a rush to take selfies with the influential tech leader before he left.Now, it’s the employees at Google who are bracing for the AI pioneer’s exit. Dean, who started at th…
Google Grapples With Exit of AI Pioneer and ‘Most Google Person’
Days after Google unveiled its first Gemini chatbot in 2023 to compete with ChatGPT, Jeff Dean went to an AI conference where he was promptly swarmed by attendees. Suddenly, the Google executive looked at his watch and realized he was due to give a talk minutes later, spurring a rush to take selfies with the influential tech leader before he left.Now, it’s the employees at Google who are bracing for the AI pioneer’s exit. Dean, who started at th…
Google chief scientist Jeff Dean leaves after 27 years
Jeff Dean, the chief scientist across Google DeepMind and Google Research who spent nearly three decades shaping the company’s core computing architecture and artificial intelligence programs, is leaving the technology giant to launch a new artificial intelligence venture. Dean is founding Discovery Loop alongside his longtime technical collaborator Sanjay Ghemawat, a Google Senior Fellow. Joining the founding team are senior artificial intellig…
Google Just Put 1 Executive in Charge of Gemini After 8 Prominent Researchers Left in 2 Months
Koray Kavukcuoglu will now oversee everything from frontier-model research to the Gemini app. Demis Hassabis will turn his attention to AGI and scientific discovery.
Google has announced changes in the bosses of its artificial intelligence divisions. There are veterans' exits, such as Jeff Dean, and changes in the IA DeepMind lab.
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Google Restructures AI Division as Senior Leaders Depart and Gemini Strategy Shifts
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