{"id":131587,"date":"2026-08-06T13:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/131587\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T13:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:35:11","slug":"hassabis-steps-down-as-deepmind-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/131587\/","title":{"rendered":"Hassabis steps down as DeepMind CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google DeepMind CEO, Demis Hassabis is stepping down from his position as part of a wider leadership restructure.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, he will become chair of DeepMind and take on the role of chief scientist at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileeurope.co.uk\/tag\/Alphabet\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">parent company<\/a>, Alphabet, while DeepMind\u2019s current CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will become senior vice-president and lead the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileeurope.co.uk\/category\/content-categories\/automation-ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI research<\/a> lab.<\/p>\n<p>Hassabis, who co-founded DeepMind in 2010 before its acquisition by Google in 2014, has been a key figure in AI development. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Don\u2019t miss the stories shaping the future of mobile technology.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileeurope.co.uk\/subscriptions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to Mobile Europe\u2019s newsletter<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 delivered twice a week.<\/p>\n<p>In a company memo, Hassabis, said: \u201cWith this backdrop, I\u2019ve decided that now is the right time for me to hand over my day-to-day operational responsibilities at GDM, so that I have the time and space to focus on the big picture and help influence what is to come to the best of my ability. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be taking on a new strategic role as Chair of GDM and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, and I\u2019m excited to announce that Koray will be stepping up to lead GDM as SVP of Google DeepMind, in addition to his role as Chief AI Architect of Google.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his new role, he will also increase his focus on Isomorphic Labs, DeepMind\u2019s drug discovery spin-off, where he said the team is making \u201cextremely rapid and promising progress\u201d to accelerate its mission.<\/p>\n<p>IN RELATED NEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google DeepMind CEO, Demis Hassabis is stepping down from his position as part of a wider leadership restructure.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[24,30973,5044,132,7543,572],"class_list":["post-131587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-google","tag-ai","tag-appointment","tag-deepmind","tag-google","tag-google-deepmind","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}