Google's AI leadership has gone through a reshuffle, with the company's chief scientist stepping down.
Alongside Jeff Dean's departure, DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping back to become chairman of the AI division. At the same time, he will replace Dean as chief scientist.
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After 27 years at the tech giant, Dean said that he was leaving to found Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation focused on automating machine learning, science, and engineering discoveries. Google will take a stake in the business.
He will be joined by fellow Google veteran Sanjay Ghemawat, who was instrumental to the development of products like TensorFlow, Bigtable, and Spanner.
