Demis Hassabis is handing over Google DeepMind. Jeff Dean, Oriol Vinyals, Quoc Le and Sanjay Ghemawat are leaving to found Discovery Loop.

Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals also departing

Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in everything from drug discovery to chip design.

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.