Demis Hassabis Steps Down as Google DeepMind CEO to Become Chairman
Hassabis is moving from running day-to-day operations at Google DeepMind to a strategic role as chairman and Alphabet chief scientist, with Koray Kavukcuoglu taking over leadership of the lab.
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Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO and will become chairman of the lab while also taking on the role of chief scientist at Alphabet. Koray Kavukcuoglu, Google's chief AI architect, will lead Google DeepMind as senior vice president. Hassabis said the move gives him time to focus on the bigger picture as artificial general intelligence approaches.
Demis Hassabis founded DeepMind Technologies in 2011 and led the lab through its acquisition by Google and its 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction work. He said he has spent his life working toward artificial general intelligence and feels, like many others, that its realization is now close at hand.
Hassabis will take on a new strategic role as Google DeepMind chairman and Alphabet chief scientist. Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the two discussed a role that would let Hassabis focus fully on actively shaping the future of AGI. Google chief AI architect Koray Kavukcuoglu will lead Google DeepMind as senior vice president.
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