{"id":130733,"date":"2026-08-05T20:13:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T20:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/130733\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T20:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T20:13:06","slug":"demis-hassabis-steps-down-from-google-deepmind-ceo-role-amid-a-major-ai-leadership-shakeup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/130733\/","title":{"rendered":"Demis Hassabis steps down from Google DeepMind CEO role amid a major AI leadership shakeup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google DeepMind is undergoing a major restructure. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is giving up the title to become chairman of the unit and chief scientist of <a aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/alphabet\/\" href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/alphabet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alphabet<\/a>, the company said Wednesday, formalizing a shift away from day-to-day management and toward AGI strategy and scientific applications of AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Koray Kavukcuoglu, DeepMind\u2019s chief technology officer and Alphabet\u2019s chief AI architect, is taking over daily operations as senior vice president of Google DeepMind. He will report to CEO Sundar Pichai rather than holding a standalone CEO title and will oversee Gemini model development going forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hassabis, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his AlphaFold work, wrote to staff that he believes AGI is close at hand and that getting the next steps right is critical for humanity. He added he\u2019ll spend more time at Isomorphic Labs, Alphabet\u2019s AI drug discovery unit, which he has called the top application of AI for improving human health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his note, Hassabis touted \u201cgreat progress\u201d the company was making with new models, citing the the unreleased Gemini 4 by name. Alphabet shares fell around 5% on the news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reshuffle lands alongside another departure: Jeff Dean, Google\u2019s chief scientist and a 27-year veteran at the company. Dean is leaving to co-found a company called Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation aimed at automating machine learning, science, and engineering research. He\u2019s joined by former Googlers Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le. Alphabet is a founding investor in the new company and will supply cloud compute. In an interview with The New York Times, Dean said that operating outside a public company gives the team room to make calls that aren\u2019t necessarily in the company\u2019s purest financial interests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a note to staff, Pichai wrote: \u201cAfter an incredible 27-year run, Jeff Dean is at a moment where he wants to try something new, and we\u2019re excited to support him in that. Jeff and Google Senior Fellow Sanjay Ghemawat are launching an independent public benefit corporation to accelerate discoveries in ML, science, and engineering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The timing comes at a difficult time for Google. Gemini 3.5 Pro, the next flagship model, is months behind its original June launch target. The company has also suffered from a string of exits from Gemini\u2019s leadership and research ranks, including losing Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to OpenAI and Nobel laureate John Jumper to Anthropic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his note to staff, Pichai maintained that Google had the talent, compute, and distribution to compete. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google DeepMind is undergoing a major restructure. 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