Posted on 08/06/2026 12:10:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Google on Wednesday revealed an overhaul of its AI leadership, as its chief scientist for nearly three decades exits – the latest in a string of high-profile departures to plague the tech giant in its struggle to pull ahead in the artificial intelligence race.
Demis Hassabis, chief executive of Google DeepMind, will become the company’s chairman and chief scientist, while Google DeepMind’s technology chief, Koray Kavukcuoglu, will lead work on Google’s new Gemini 4 model, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced in a post on X.
Jeff Dean – Google’s current chief scientist and one of the company’s first employees, working there for 27 years – is leaving to start his own AI startup, Discovery Loop, with three other company veterans, according to a company blog post. Pichai said Dean is leaving the company on good terms, congratulating him for “an incredible 27-year run.” Google’s owner, Alphabet, will invest in Discovery Loop and provide the startup with cloud and computing capacity, Pichai added.
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That’s a pretty bad title.
Can google fight off OpenAI and Anthropic with the thousands of Indians they brought over to the USA to replace their white male workers? That is the question.
At least they still have their chief scientist...
BTT
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