Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind

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Demis Hassabis transitions from CEO to chairman at Google DeepMind, with Jeff Dean departing to start a new AI company.

Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO of Google DeepMind to become chairman. He will also serve as chief scientist for Alphabet and lead Isomorphic Labs. Koray Kavukcuoglu becomes senior VP, reporting to CEO Sundar Pichai. Chief scientist Jeff Dean, along with Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le, are leaving to start Discovery Loop, an independent public benefit corporation. Google will invest in and be the cloud provider for Discovery Loop. Google's stock fell over 4% on the news. The changes come amid talent exits and low morale, with Gemini 3.5 Pro reportedly months behind.

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