Demis Hassabis becomes Alphabet chief scientist, relinquishes DeepMind CEO role; Jeff Dean and other key engineers leave to found new startup; moves follow departure of two star researchers to AI rivals

Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals also departing

Hassabis assumirá postos de presidente do conselho do DeepMind e de cientista-chefe da Alphabet

Google's AI division sees a significant leadership overhaul and key departures. Demis Hassabis moves to chief scientist while Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over daily operations.…

Some of Google’s top researchers are leaving as well.

Alphabet revamps its AI leadership as Demis Hassabis becomes chief scientist, Jeff Dean exits and Google faces rising AI competition.