On August 5, CNBC and Fortune reported that Demis Hassabis is stepping down from the Google DeepMind CEO role, moving into a chairman role at the unit while taking the title of chief scientist of parent company Alphabet. Koray Kavukcuoglu, DeepMind's chief technology officer and Alphabet's chief AI architect, takes over daily operations as senior vice president, reporting to Sundar Pichai.
The same reshuffle saw Google chief scientist Jeff Dean leave the company after 27 years. Together the moves restructure the leadership of Google's AI efforts at a time when it is competing hard with OpenAI and Anthropic.
Source: CNBC