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

Post by xnx » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 7:19 PM UTC

aix1 wrote: post #67

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It's quite interesting that those events are happening at the same moment. I wonder whether they are related

I think there are multiple separate events here, timed to coincide in order to minimise disruption. It's hard to be sure whether they share overlapping causes, but I'd guess that there's at least an element of that.

Post by solenoid0937 » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 7:23 PM UTC

yumraj wrote: post #342

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> Frontier models can probably not advance much further with the datasets we have currently available I’ve been reading this sentiment on HN since GPT4o, yet models got better and better

There’s a difference between things getting incrementally better and a step function. LLMs will obviously keep getting incrementally better, but in order to get the kind on jump that LLMs themselves were, the sentiment is that we need something more.

Post by aborsy » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 7:24 PM UTC

andsoitis wrote: post #339

tcp_handshaker wrote: post #149

No AGI on the horizon and that ROI horizon approaching fast is going to make Ed Zitron a superstar. If Demis Hassabis got a Nobel prize for being a Project Manager, is Zitron up for the Nobel on Economy for excellence in economic forecast?

> If Demis Hassabis got a Nobel prize for being a Project Manager His accomplishments are far beyond project manager. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demis_Hassabis

Post by Mr_Eri_Atlov » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 7:26 PM UTC

ignoramous wrote: post #135

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> But things need to change. Not all change is good, as proven by Zuckerberg's response after the lackluster Llama 4 release. The radical restructuring appears to have made things worse.

How? Muse Spark 1.1 is a huge step up from Llama 4 & competitive with xAI's Grok 4.5. In another 3 to 4 releases, MSL might very well be challenging Ant & OAI. Moonshot, despite their comparatively limited resources, has already demonstrated that the Big 2 aren't invincible.

Post by thereitgoes456 » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 7:28 PM UTC

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And they did raise new funding as he predicted...Since July 2024, OpenAI has raised or secured roughly $170 billion in new capital. Numbers never see before. So yes its the one, and remarkably right so far.

Notice how he didn't say "I predict they will raise new funding", he predicted collapse, with the implicit retort that there's no way they will raise more funding than has ever been done before and invent a whole new AI. He was mocking the supposed things that would need to happen. He strongly assumed collapse. 2 years these charlatans have had their "imminent collapse" predictions repeatedly wrong, meanwhile all val…