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Google DeepMind chief steps back as other AI leads exit
A major shake-up for Google's artificial intelligence efforts: DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is taking a step back and becoming chairman of the unit. CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will pick up the day-to-day leadership tasks, including development of the next Gemini AI model. At the same time, DeepMind Chief Scientist Jeff Dean — one of Google's first employees — is leaving to start his own firm, Discovery Loop. He'll be joined there by longtime collaborator Sanjay Ghemawat, DeepMind VP of Research Oriol Vinyals and Google Brain co-founder Quoc Le.
Google’s artificial intelligence division is undergoing a significant leadership change. DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping back from day-to-day operations and will assume the role of chairman of the unit. Chief Technology Officer Koray Kavukcuoglu...
