AI BriefingGoogle DeepMind Leadership Restructuring: Demis Hassabis Appointed Chair, Jeff Dean Departs
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Google DeepMind announced the appointment of Demis Hassabis as Chair and the departure of Jeff Dean.
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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced a leadership restructuring at Google DeepMind. Demis Hassabis will move to the role of Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist at Alphabet, while continuing to serve as CEO of Isomorphic Labs.
Hassabis will focus on shaping the future of AGI and science, and will advise Koray Kavukcuoglu and Josh on model and research directions for the Google DeepMind research team. Along with this restructuring, Jeff Dean's departure was also announced.
Google also emphasized the growth of its AI business.
- Gemini app monthly users exceed 950 million
- Gemma models cumulative downloads exceed 900 million
- Growing developer and enterprise demand for Gemini Flash
- Launch of Cyber models and progress in Gemini Robotics research
Pichai stated that Google is accelerating AI investments across all businesses, including Search, YouTube, and Cloud, and is strengthening its competitiveness in both AGI and cutting-edge AI research.
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