Inside Google's AI reset: How Pichai is redrawing the map & shifting its centre of gravity back to California

Inside Google's AI reset: How Pichai is redrawing the map & shifting its centre of gravity back to California

Google AI restructure: Demis Hassabis steps back, Jeff Dean launches Discovery Loop startup backed by Khosla; Gemini 4 delayed past June; researchers depart for OpenAI/Anthropic. For CTO/managers: organizational churn and model delays accelerate enterprise reassessment of Gemini stack dependencies—implications for foundation model procurement strategy.