On August 6th, according to ReutersGoogle Reshaping AI management. DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis will be transferred to the new Chief Scientist of Alphabet and will serve as Chairman of Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu took over day-to-day management, with the position of Senior Vice-President, while continuing as Alphabet Chief AI Architect。
In an internal letter, Hassabis attributed the role readjustment to AGI, which is approaching, and will focus in the future on the AGI strategy and its social impact, and on increasing its input to the AI pharmaceutical research and development company Isomorphic Labs. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said that they had long been discussing how to get Hassans to focus on shaping the AGI future。
On the same day, Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Viennas and Quoc Le announced their departure from Google and the establishment of Discovery Loop, a public-interest company oriented towards machine learning, science and engineering research. Google has invested in this new company and has been given credit by Google Cloud. Dean and Gemawat have been involved in building multiple Google core infrastructure, and Vinyals and Le have been involved in the development of the Gemini model。
This adjustment took place at the time of Gemini's new flagship version's extension. The original model, which was scheduled to be released in June, is not on line, and Hassabis refers in his letter to Gemini 4, which is still unpublished; Alphabet ' s share price fell 4% after the news was released。