Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 3:01 AM UTC

janalsncm wrote: post #601

worldsavior wrote: post #469

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Such bad wording wow.

I mean in the previous paragraph it says they’re creating a company. And is Twitter even hiring anymore?

Post by utopcell » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 3:07 AM UTC

clhodapp wrote: post #632

aleph_minus_one wrote: post #583

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> That's another problem Google have: they won't stand behind their products until they are outdated. > That can work in the B2C space but it's horrible in B2B. My experience differs: (conservative) companies like stability, so calling some very new model "Preview" is a good idea to make it clear to the customer that this frontier model should be treated as more experimental than the default offering.

That's fine, but it should still have the same technical availability level

Post by nostrademons » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 3:11 AM UTC

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For at least a year now the standard reflexive reply to “Google seems way behind OAI and Anthropic” has been “it’ll be ok, they’ve got Dean and Hassabis.” And now they don’t. What reason is there to be bullish about Google now?

I still think Google is the only one who has a shot of coming out of this on top. Open AI and Anthropic's whole existence is predicated on some sort of moat, which I don't really see them having long term. They've got a bit of a headstart, but that's it. Conversely, AI is just a means to an end for Google - they don't need for their model to be the one to succeed. But, in contrast to the other major company in their…

Post by kfse » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 3:13 AM UTC

Cidan wrote: post #545

HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #418

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It seems there's a big shake up on the underperforming Gemini side. Before there was Shazeer (already gone) and Vinyals as co-leads, reporting to Hassabis, now Gemini comes under Kavukcuoglu reporting direct to Pichai as SVP of DeepMind. Hassabis seems to have been pushed aside. He had been CEO of DeepMind, but that position no longer exists and it seems Kavukcuoglu is now leading DeepMind with a title of SVP. Hassab…

CEO of at Google (not Alphabet) was always an informal title. There is no CEO of Cloud, CEO of YouTube, or CEO of DeepMind within Google internally -- it's always been an SVP role.

Post by coderatlarge » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 3:22 AM UTC

Cidan wrote: post #550

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Part of me thinks Google's entire problem is crappy internal tooling, not really an anti-innovation environment. Just making a dev take 2x as long to get something done has a bigger effect than you'd think. With LLMs it's more like 10x now because even Gemini doesn't understand Google-internal tooling.

Google's internal tooling is still, hands down, better than anything that exists for the scale they operate at, and it's not even close. Google's processes, however, is hands down the worst thing to exist for the scale they operate at, and it's not even close.