Inside Google DeepMind's reshuffle
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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
Opinions diverge on what it means for DeepMind's future as Google makes big changes to its AI leadership.
Demis Hassabis, the driving force behind Google DeepMind, is ascending to the role of chief scientist at Alphabet, Google’s parent company, replacing Jeff Dean who is leaving to work at a start-up.
Google’s artificial-intelligence business has rarely looked stronger commercially, yet some of the researchers who helped create that advantage are leaving. The Gemini app now has 950 million monthly active users,
Jeff Dean is leaving after 27 years to run his own company, Demis Hassabis is handing off DeepMind, and Gemini 3.5 Pro still has no release date.
A decade ago, a computer did something that no human would have done. It was considered a breakthrough for AI. Now the world is full of them.
The artificial intelligence system largely accomplished the task it was built to solve, and researchers outside DeepMind have already been carrying its work forward
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.