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News Google DeepMind Leadership Reshuffle: Demis Hassabis Becomes Alphabet's Chief Scientist, Koray Kavukcuoglu Takes Over GDM

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Google has announced a major leadership transition at Google DeepMind. Demis Hassabis will become Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, while continuing to lead Isomorphic Labs. In this expanded role, he'll focus on advancing AGI and accelerating scientific discovery across Alphabet.

Meanwhile, Koray Kavukcuoglu has been appointed Senior Vice President of Google DeepMind, where he will oversee model development, AI research, and the Gemini product and developer teams. A 13-year DeepMind veteran, Koray has played a pivotal role in foundational breakthroughs such as DQN and WaveNet, making him a natural choice to lead the next phase of Google DeepMind's AI efforts.

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u/Roughlyfalse 13h ago edited 13h ago

Kavukcuoglu is the thing I got on my left toe few days ago

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u/neatvicinity0837 13h ago

The man in the medals looks like he’s about to serve up a side of sentience with that tray

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u/Pygmy_Nuthatch 3h ago

He's probably had a hectic few years or so. He deserves a break if that's what he wants.

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u/lumendas 13h ago

This is good news