Google DeepMind chief executive Demis Hassabis stepped down from that role on Wednesday to become its chairman. DeepMind chief technology officer Koray Kavukcuoglu has been elevated to senior vice president to lead the AI research lab. He will oversee the development of Gemini models, frontier AI research and the Gemini app and report directly to Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai.

Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals also departing

oogle's AI organization is undergoing a profound change as the company struggles to keep pace with OpenAI and Anthropic.

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.…

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

Move comes as Google faces mounting pressure from key rivals