Overview
- Demis Hassabis will step back from daily management to become Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet while continuing to lead Isomorphic Labs.
- Koray Kavukcuoglu was promoted to senior vice president of Google DeepMind to run Gemini model development, frontier research, and the Gemini app and developer teams.
- Jeff Dean and several senior colleagues are leaving to form Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation that Google will support as a founding investor and Cloud partner.
- Markets and staff responded quickly as Alphabet shares fell about 4–5 percent and talent trackers reported an elevated outflow from DeepMind this year, with reports of long hours, missed Gemini release windows, and burnout.
- The moves formalize a split between long-horizon AGI and scientific strategy and accelerated product engineering, a change that could sharpen hiring competition, shift more control to Mountain View, and affect how Google balances safety, government work, and commercial deadlines.