Google DeepMind’s Hassabis Moves to Chairman Role in Leadership Reshuffle - Bloomberg
Demis Hassabis is stepping down from operational control of Google DeepMind to become chairman and chief scientist, handing day-to-day leadership to Koray Kavukcuoglu.
Jeff Dean, a legendary Google AI engineer since 1999, is departing to launch startup Discovery Loop, taking three other prominent DeepMind researchers with him.
Google's stock fell 5.5% on news of the leadership shake-up amid intensifying competition from OpenAI and Anthropic in the AI race.
The company has faced criticism for moving too slowly to commercialize its world-leading AI research, particularly in areas like AI coding.