Google, Hassabis and AI
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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.
Opinions diverge on what it means for DeepMind's future as Google makes big changes to its AI leadership.
Even before a massive shakeup in leadership at Google’s frontier AI lab, the org had faced quiet tensions between its offices across the Atlantic.
Google’s AI leadership changes may have come down to pressure to speed up products — and internal ethical conflicts.
Its WeatherNext model, which will be open-sourced, can accurately predict a storm’s track and intensity using lower-resolution weather data. Researchers don’t yet fully understand how it does this.
Researchers from the Google DeepMind and Google Research teams have helped train the WeatherNext AI weather prediction model to offer improved cyclone warnings. The National Hurricane Center, the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere,
Google's AI reshuffle: Chief scientist Jeff Dean exits and Demis Hassabis steps down as DeepMind CEO
Google's AI divisions are getting shuffled, the search giant announced on Wednesday. Jeff Dean, the longtime chief scientist, is leaving after 27 years to start his own company. Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind,
Google is executing a fundamental architectural shift in how it manages the tension between high-stakes product delivery and long-horizon research. By consolidating DeepMind under a product-focused mandate while simultaneously spinning out its most ambitious scientific talent into a separately funded entity,