Jeff Dean, who for years was one of Google’s most important executives, is leading the new artificial intelligence company with the backing of Google.

Elon Musk says money won't matter by 2036, and Jeff Bezos says we'll live in space by 2045. Google DeepMind's Lila Ibrahim says nobody actually knows that.

CNBC’s MacKenzie Sigalos reports on leadership changes inside Alphabet’s AI lab, including Jeff Dean’s departure, Demis Hassabis stepping back from day-to-day management, and growing pressure on Google’s talent ranks.

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.

Alphabet Inc.'s Google is concentrating its artificial intelligence leadership at its Mountain View, California, headquarters to gain momentum in the accelerating race against Anthropic and OpenAI to build the world’s dominant AI models.

Jeff Dean, who earned his computer science Ph.D.

For Google, home to the famous 2017 transformer paper that paved the way for the generative AI boom, the recent events underscore a central challenge facing the $4 trillion compan