Google's influential engineer Jeff Dean is leaving after 27 years to start his own AI company. Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind CEO, now becomes Alphabet Chief Scientist in a new role. Dean's new venture, Discovery Loop, will focus on AI for scientific and engineering purposes. This leadership shift occurs as Google invests heavily in advanced artificial intelligence models. These changes underscore AI's central importance to Google's future strategy.

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.