AI BriefingGoogle's New AI Chief Inherits the Task of Chasing OpenAI and Anthropic
Key point
With the leadership change at Google DeepMind, a full-scale competition to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic begins.
Details
Koray Kavukcuoglu has been appointed as the new head of DeepMind, Google's AI unit. He is promoted to SVP (Senior Vice President), replacing the former CEO Demis Hassabis, and will report directly to Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Kavukcuoglu's primary mission is to oversee the development of the Gemini models, frontier AI research, and the Gemini app and developer teams, aiming to close the performance gap with OpenAI and Anthropic.
This personnel move is interpreted as an effort to shift Google's focus from academic projects to improving frontier performance and strengthening developer tools. Google has also formed an internal team called Code Strike to enhance coding capabilities, which are considered key to developing AGI (Artificial General Intelligence).
Google expanded the boundaries of frontier models with the release of Gemini 3 in November 2025, but has fallen behind again following the successive releases of Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.6.
This summary was generated automatically by AI. Check the original for the author's claims and context. Copyright belongs to the original author.
Our guide explains how the AI works. Report summary errors, attribution issues, or removal requests via Contact.
Related
Google Launches First Suncatcher Orbital AI Data Center Test on October 1
Anthropic Pacing to $100B ARR; Rumors of OpenAI Solving Navier-Stokes Spark ControversyOpenAI GPT-6 Astra Successfully Decodes 20-Year-Old Enigma MessageOpenAI and Anthropic's RSI Strategy and the Uncertainty of AI Profitability