Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs • Hacker News Board

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

#11

Post by ChrisArchitect » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 4:17 PM UTC

Source: https://x.com/demishassabis/status/2085034334914769203

(https://xcancel.com/demishassabis/status/2085034334914769203)

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

#12

Post by eamag » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 4:18 PM UTC

Google's stock dropped 5% right away, 200billion of value

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

#13

Post by toshinoriyagi » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 4:18 PM UTC

Deepmind always worked on some of the coolest architectures. Following things like AlphaStar, AlphaGo, and more were extremely exciting and felt like the hacker persona of machine learning. I hope Google can take advantage of this awesome team. They've done incredible work.

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

#14

Post by huntertwo » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 4:18 PM UTC

FartyMcFarter wrote: post #4

WarmWash wrote: post #3

Absolute earthquake at Deepmind the last few months...

What do you mean?

There is no Gemini 3.5 pro despite multiple announcements?

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

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Post by peter422 » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 4:19 PM UTC

eamag wrote: post #12

Google's stock dropped 5% right away, 200billion of value

In theory I think the stock should be going up because his tenure has found Google getting left behind.

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

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Post by zuzululu » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 4:19 PM UTC

anybody watching the pace of output from Gemini team has been nothing but disappointing. meanwhile anthropic and openai has surpassed them.

I do wonder if anybody working at Google can give us an insight why the chaos and lack of competitiveness?

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

#17

Post by htrp » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 4:20 PM UTC

Between Shazeer and these guys

Looks like Gemini's sub-par performance is claiming heads

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

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Post by hypnodrones » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 4:20 PM UTC

Today I saw one of the most talented engineers I know and worked with leave DeepMind and now I probably know part of the "why". Dark clouds hovering over Google's AI game.

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

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Post by owlninja » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 4:20 PM UTC

inerte wrote: post #10

adolph wrote: post #2

"Dean and Google senior fellow Sanjay Ghemawat are starting Discovery Loop, an independent publicity benefit corporation in which Google will be an investor and cloud provider.: Kinsley Gaffe: A mistake whereby a politician inadvertently says something truthful which they had not meant to reveal. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kinsley_gaffe

I don't get what you mean? To me the biggest news is Jeff and Sanjay leaving Google... but then not really, since Google will be "an investor". I guess that's sorta their retirement plan? And is Discovery Loop actually part of Alphabet? So complicated.

I think he was referring to an obvious typo "publicity benefit corporation"

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

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Post by htrp » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 4:20 PM UTC

Hassabis is being promoted to Chair of Deepmind