Google
Big shake-up at Google DeepMind
🧒 Discovery
The head of Google's AI inventors is changing roles to focus on big discoveries.
📰 Essential
Demis Hassabis becomes chairman and chief scientist of Google DeepMind; Koray Kavukcuoglu takes operational control of the AI teams.
🔬 Expert
The move separates research from execution: Hassabis, 2024 Nobel laureate in chemistry, keeps the science and the chairmanship, while Kavukcuoglu, until now CTO, is tasked with shipping faster against OpenAI and Anthropic. Teams are consolidated inside Google DeepMind and responsible AI groups move closer to model development. One thing to watch: several long-serving researchers are leaving at the same time.