Google shifts AI power
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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.
Gemini hits 950 million users as Google Cloud growth accelerates sharply. Top AI researchers are leaving Google for rivals and ambitious new startups. Google reshuffles DeepMind leadership as the frontier talent war intensifies.
Google DeepMind's new AI weather model, WeatherNext, can predict hurricanes earlier and more accurately than many existing systems, giving forecasters up to an extra day of warning and improving disaster preparedness.
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.
A Google DeepMind exec says the AI capex boom is a bet on recursive self-improvement, and admits today’s revenue cannot justify the spend.