DeepMind Shakeup: Hassabis Steps Down as CEO, Jeff Dean Departs to Found Startup
mark_k · x · 2026-08-06
Google DeepMind is undergoing major leadership changes, per Axios. Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO of DeepMind to become chairman of the unit and chief scientist of Alphabet. He will focus more on long-term AGI strategy and continue leading Isomorphic Labs.
Current CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will take over day-to-day leadership as Senior VP, reporting to Sundar Pichai.
Meanwhile, Google’s chief scientist Jeff Dean is leaving alongside Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le to start Discovery Loop, an independent public benefit corporation focused on accelerating ML, science, and engineering discoveries. Google will invest and serve as a cloud partner.
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